Re: Slip connection to Linux Box

[Kristoffer Lawson <krlawson@xgw.fi>]

On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Dancer wrote:

> 
> I don't recall linux having slattach, but a simple DIP script will work
> nicely:

Linux does have a slattach command. It's used to initialize the slip
interface and is a necessary command when setting up SLIP or CSLIP.
After the slattach command you configure the  interface with ifconfig
and route to whatever it should be..

> > root login refused on this terminal
> > 
> > I believe this happens on any terminal (including console) and with any 
> > username.  Does anyone know what could be wrong...
> 
> Aha! Look in /etc/ttytab

/etc/securetty on Linux.

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