[Fwd: RE: help with telnet]

Martin Herren <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ooops... was probably meant to be sent here...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] help with telnet
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:42:31 -0600
From: Davin Carter <[email protected]>
To: 'Martin Herren ' <[email protected]>

 Is telnet enabled in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet.

There should be a yes/no field in that file.

Davin Carter

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Herren
To: [email protected]
Sent: 7/25/02 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] help with telnet

"Zaleski, Alex" wrote:
> 
> Both, I try root and I created a regular user, neither work.  I used
YaST2
> to enable root to login remotely.
> 
> The thing is that even the regular user can't telnet in. If root was
not
> allowed to login I'd expect a different error than "Login Incorrect"

No, you get the same error. It's always better to show as little
information as possible to the 'ouside'.

Perhaps you should check the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files
?

/Martin

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