On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:39:55PM -0600, Eric Aksomitis wrote:
-> So, I set up a web server Linux Mdrk 7 machine last week. It is fully
-> there and working, but one problem:
-> I can't get telnet or ftp to work, even from the konsole (telnet
-> localhost).
->
-> It keeps on with "connection refused by host".
->
-> My inetd.conf file points to telnet being serviced through tcpd to
-> in.telnetd as you would expect. There is no hosts.allow or hosts.deny
-> files present. This is the way mine is at home and I often telnet
-> localhost to run programs as root real easy.
You should not be able to telent into the root account. It is considered
very insecure. You can telnet into a user account, then "su -" to run as
root. (Even more secure, use ssh instead, but that's another issue.)
You didn't say whether you have tried to log in as a user; if not, try
that.
What other functions are working or not working? Can you ping the beastie,
by host name or by IP address? Get the webpage?
->
-> So, after having read all the man pages, all I can think of is tcpd is
-> not allowing me through, but why? If possible, I'd like to leave tcpd
-> in the mix, but if not I'll just use straight in.telnetd if that works.
->
-> What else am i missing, something to do with hostname resolving?
->
-> Please help, I'm not sure what else it might be?
->
-> Eric Aksomitis
-> http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml
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