[plug] sshd and telnetd problems

[Brian Tombleson]

> SSH is now working and working well but Telnet is still being funny,
> now it will successfully connect (/var/log/daemon.log reports an
> authorised connection) I get the issue statement (Debian
> testing/unstable mornmist) and then nothing happens it just sits
> there. If I try logging in as root I get connection closed by foreign
> host (though I assume that's telnet saying I can't login as root).

Umm .. telnet doesn't like you to remote logging in as root and most
distributions deny this by default.

Recommended is to login as a normal user and then 'su' to root.

If you want to login directly as root, have a look at /etc/securetty and
'man securetty'

Hope this helps.

- Brian.