Cannot login to the console

unixnerd · 02-05-2009, 01:03 PM

I am trying to logon to the console, but i am receiving the below message and it asks to login again :

Debain GNU/Linux 4.0 server.com tty1

server.com login:root
Usage: login [-p] [name]
login [-p] [-h host] [-f name]
login [-p] -r host

Debain GNU/Linux 4.0 server.com tty1

server.com login:

Can someone tell me why i am getting this error ? and what is needed to rectify it ?

Thanks very much in advance.

TB0ne · 02-05-2009, 02:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unixnerd

I am trying to logon to the console, but i am receiving the below message and it asks to login again :

Debain GNU/Linux 4.0 server.com tty1

server.com login:root
Usage: login [-p] [name]
login [-p] [-h host] [-f name]
login [-p] -r host

Debain GNU/Linux 4.0 server.com tty1

server.com login:

Can someone tell me why i am getting this error ? and what is needed to rectify it ?

Thanks very much in advance.

You're getting the usage message. It's telling you to type in:

login root

Try it.