The feature you are referring to as twisty is not twisty at all. It is very
important that you not be able to telnet in as root. The only way to make
things absolutely tight on unix machines is to disallow telnet sessions for
accounts that are system standard on *nix systems.
As for being able to telnet in with mandrake, depending on what security
option and the purpose of the machine you chose during installation, you may
not be running a telnet daemon. Some of the install options dont even
install telnetd.
The simplest fix is the install the package telnet-server from your mandrake
cd. I would recommend not doing that at all and suggest that you go with a
package such as ssh. You can do everything that you can with the regular
telnet daemon, but it all runs through the ssh security specs and makes
things nice and tight. there are even web based java ssh telnet clients that
you can use for free installed on your apache server on the machine you want
to telnet too. like mine, at home i can go to
http://machinename.domain.suffix/ssh and i get prompted for a login from any
java capable browser. thats really slick because you dont have to install an
ssh telnet client on the machine you are telnetting from.
having an open telnet port just attracts undesired attention :)
--fluid
-----Original Message-----
From: duane voth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 3:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after
install?
Alexander Skwar wrote:
> So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100:
>
>> I've just installed Mdk 7.2 and the telnet doesn't work. A friend
explained
>> me to check that the telnet service is enable in /etc/xinetd/telnet but
>> this file doesn't exist.
>
>
> telnet-server is installed?
>
> Alexander Skwar
Also, you woudn't be trying to telnet in as root would you?
Some twisty security feature (that I *still* have yet to discover)
disables root telnet.
duane
