[plug] telnet access in Red Hat 6.1

[Simon Scott]

	Perhaps your server has been compromised????

	It is all I can think of when you say you made no changes to the
machine whatsoever. 

	Are you sure you didnt change anything, not even installing
something????? 





	From:	Dennis Plester <dennisp at tiwest.com.au> on 18-04-2001 02:29
PM
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	Subject:	RE: [plug] telnet access in Red Hat 6.1

	Paul wrote:

	"A quick suggestion, have you got portmap running? If so did you
edit
	/etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny and put something in there?
	Telnet runs off the tcp.d, which relys on these files."

	Simon wrote:
	"Is it portmap or inetd which uses hosts.allow and hosts.deny??????
	I guess the question we all shouldve asked but havent is
	What did you change between it working and it not working????"

	I will check for portmap running, and /etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny
	for changes. I did not make any changes to these files between it
working,
	and not working. It has run for a week, without a reboot, connecting
and
	disconnecting when requested via telnet, as the gateway PC has no
keyboard
	or monitor. When I went to telnet into it and connect last night,
and it
	would not let me bring up a login prompt. I have since rebooted it,
same
	thing. If I plug a keyboard and monitor in, I can log in, establish
the
	connection, and everything is fine. All this time, the PC will still
ping
	the others, and they can ping it.

	I know it hasn't been fiddled with from within my house, as I have
been the
	only one there during the time between it allowing telnet access,
and then
	not allowing telnet access. 

	Thanks for the suggestions so far.

	Dennis.





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