local logins work just fine locally, but when telnetting into the box, it makes it to the login and PW prompt, but refuses to authenticate (always gives a login invalid). I can use SU to switch between users with their own passwords, but I cannot telnet into the machine even from itself. I have looked through the FAQ's but am unable to find any information at all as to why this may be happening IP for the machine is temporary login UN sj PW twonk1 yes I have verified the PW's IP for now is 207.70.43.161 and will stay that way till I get it hooked up to my companies t1 (in the mean time it will be VERY slow)
If I understand correctly, you are trying to log on using root account. That has been disallowed for reasons of security.