On Friday 28 November 2003 08:22 pm, Murray Shields wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I cannot telnet into my Gentoo box from a remote machine ("connection
> refused"). It's a machine on my local lan protected from the world by a
> firewall on a separate gateway machine, so security is somewhat of a
> non-issue.
>
> I installed netkit-telnetd but still no joy.. Do I need to activate it
> somehow?
>
> Or am I barking up th wrong tree?
>
Telneting into a gentoo box is easy. On the server end, make sure xinetd is up
and running. Make sure it's enabled at boot time with: rc-update add xinetd
default. If you had to do that, then start the dameon with /etc/init.d/xinetd
start.
Have a peek at /etc/xinetd.d/telnetd. That file, telnetd, has to be there and
is installed when netkit-telnetd is emerged.
While at the server, if you want to provide telnet access to root logins, move
down to /etc/pam.d and edit the file named login and remark out this line:
#auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
Once done, you may have to stop and restart /etc/init.d/xinetd if you've
changed anything in /etc/xinetd.d. Now try to login to your newly opened
server.
Take note, DO NOT use telnet across your firewall or oterwise on an
unprotected network. If you do, you are really, really asking for problems.
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