[plug] telnet access in Red Hat 6.1

[Dennis Plester]

When I login, I am doing so as a "normal" user, not as root. I don't like
the idea of being able to login as root remotely. In answer to other
questions posted by Simon, I did try rebooting, but it made no difference. I
will check his and Mike's other suggestions when I am next in front of the
box.

Thanks

Dennis.


-----Original Message-----
From:	David Griffiths [SMTP:griffith at environ.wa.gov.au]
Sent:	Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:05 AM
To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject:	Re: [plug] telnet access in Red Hat 6.1


Dennis wrote:

>
>	What provides the telnet service? Is it a daemon? If so, what is it
>called?

The telnet server is /usr/sbin/in.telnetd But it doesn't run as a daemon as
such - it's called up by the inetd superserver as needed as Simon
mentioned.  	In 6.0 both the server and the client are part of the same
package. (They have been split into separate rpms in 6.2, not sure about
6.1)


> Where would I found out whether this service is being disabled, or if it
>is broken?

You're not trying to login as root are you? Root can only login to the
tty's listed in /etc/securetty (console logins by default - and in most
cases best left that way).

cheers,

Dave.