On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jon Aubrey de Lavenu wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install telnet on my bering 1.0 box.
Obligatory security warning: Telnet (the client) is a useful tool for poking at cleartext protocols. Using it for anything else is pointless... ssh is so much more flexible and secure that telnet is obsolete for normal communication needs. I don't think it is wise to equip a firewall to poke at cleartext protocols, but some people might. > I have got the Telnet.lrp package installed, Where did the package come from? Was it http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/thc/files/kwarchive/telnet.lrp? > i have setup inetd.conf and securetty. That is confusing. Those need to be setup on the machine you are connecting TO, not the machine you are connecting FROM. > When I try to telnet in I am assuming from Bering to something inside your network... > I get a message saying "error in loading shared > libraries" and "libncurses.s0.4: cannot open sgared object file: no such > file or directory" Well, it looks like you should find libncurses. Have you looked at the bottom of the page at http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/thc/files/kwarchive/? > And then the client disconects. It is not clear that the client ever attempted to connect. > Any thoughts/ideas? I am confused, and am hoping you will just use ssh. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. www.slickedit.com/sourceforge ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
