[plug] getting telnet access

[Craig Reynolds]

Ahh, 'tis a thing of beauty to see it work finally. The reason I couldn't
log in was that the user account I set up suring install was set to use my
work username accidentally, and I hadn't realised as there is only 1
character difference. It works now.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the solution.

For future reference, what needs to be done to allow root to log in
remotely?

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§ ©raig ®eynolds §
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Just because this is never going to work is no reason to be negative!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kenworthy" <billk at iinet.net.au>
To: "Plug List" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] getting telnet access


Now you have it installed, go back and edit the xinet.d/telnet file and
enable it, then kill -HUP xinetd to reread the config.  Note that
logging in as root in telnet, ssh etc is disabled by default in most
distros - users only and su!

BillK


On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 22:52, Craig Reynolds wrote:
> Ok, thanks to all those who gave suggestions I have come to the
realisation
> that I did not have a telnet server installed. Now I have that set up, I
can
> telnet in, BUT, I can't log in as it doesn't seem to want ot accept the
> username and password that I give it. I have tried using both root and
> another user that I created at setup. Any suggestions on this one?
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> § ©raig ®eynolds §
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Just because this is never going to work is no reason to be negative!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leon Brooks" <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 9:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] getting telnet access
>
>
> > On Sunday 20 January 2002 14:46, Craig Reynolds wrote:
> > > Hi guys, I've got a fresh RH 7.2 install an I'm having trouble getting
> > > telnet acces to it, so I was hoping someone would be able to point me
in
> > > the right direction.
> >
> > Use ssh instead. If you have to get in from Windows, use PuTTY (GPL). I
> have
> > patches to make this do SCO funkeys and some basic printery stuff, but
> it's
> > fast, light (no DLL hell) and simple, and has lots of convenience
features
> > like scrollback and autologin.
> >
> > It also has a telnet client.
> >
> > Do netstat -tanp (or -pant, or -antp, etc, your choice) and make sure
you
> > actually have a telnet listening.
> >
> > Check the firewall (ipchains|iptables) rules (if any).
> >
> > If you are going ``across'' the box to get there, make sure that IP
> > forwarding is enabled.
> >
> > Check /etc/hosts.deny as well.
> >
> > Cheers; Leon
> >
> >
>