[plug] sshd and telnetd problems

[Jason Nicholls]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:46:19AM +0800, Brian Tombleson wrote:
> 
> > 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.

... and why use telnet at all. Use SSH everywhere including the local lan.
If you have windows clients then TeraTerm or PuTTY are terminal programs that
support ssh.


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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