99% of the time if you can’t login at the console of a Sun workstation but can login to beauty or another Sun computer from a PC/Mac using telnet or SSH, the issue is that you are over your Unix disks quota. You’ll need to free up space in their account by deleting stuff. (Note: YOU need to do this – the Help Desk can’t do this for you). In order to login at the console, it needs to create some temporary files in your account which it cannot do if you are over your quota.
When you login from a PC/Mac to the Suns, you should see something like the following, which is an indication that this is the problem:
Over disk quota on /home/acct2, time limit has expired, remove 9180K
Over disk quota on /home/seuss, time limit has expired, remove 9180K
Over disk quota on /home/acct3, time limit has expired, remove 9180K
What you need to do is connect to your account by using ssh to connect to beauty.tcnj.edu. or do su – <username> from a friend’s terminal session. Then you’ll be able to go through your account and delete unwanted or un-needed files.