Having made sure that I’d enabled Telnet after rebooting the Slug, I opened a Windows command line box and entered “Telnet 192.168.2.77” (I had to use the “2” to match the rest of my home system). I was prompted for the slug login and password and entered “admin” for both, which resulted in the following messages:
I believe you should be logging in as ‘root’ with whatever password you have associated with ‘root’ – admin/admin are the login/password for the web interface of the slug. Your telnet session should work from there…