On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 05:02:06PM -0800, Garl R. Grigsby wrote:
>
>Afternoon all,
> I haven't seen much tech talk lately so I thought I would post a
>couple of questions that have been bugging me and something really neat
>I just found. First for the questions.
>
>Question 1) No matter what I do, I cannot get rlogin to work on Mandrake
>7.1. The machine is running NIS and I can telnet into any account, but
>for the life of me I cannot get rlogin to work. the rsh package is
>installed but still no joy. There are no error messages in the logs.
>Nothing. The clients connecting just time out. What am I doing wrong?
>
Are the "r" services enabled in /etc/inetd.conf? Are they blocked in
/etc/hosts.deny? Are you sure you want this gaping security hole, when
you could be using ssh?
--
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.--Charles Babbage
