On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Do 'rpm -qa | grep telnet' and 'rpm -qa|grep ssh'
>
> If the packages are installed the you need to start the daemons.
>
> For telnet, uncomment relevant line from /etc/inetd.conf and restart inetd.
The inetd does not exist in Mandrake7.2 . It has been replaced by
xinetd. And in MDK7.2 you can control all the services without touching
any files ever :)
do a ntsysv --level 5 and ntsysv --level 3 and select whatever
services you want to enable like telnet, ssh, rlogin etc in each
level. Probably you can get away with doing it for level 5 only.
(If you do not have options for telnet, ssh etc on doing ntsysv, it means
that these services are not installed and you will have to install these
rpms).
> Check out telnetd man pages for logging options. Telnet in considered as
> insecure and is advisable only for lan and on a desktop machine.
I do not advice it even for a lan. (LAN on ethernet is the most
insecure thing out there)
> Sshd daemon is separately run. Do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/ssh start.
It is best to select it in ntsysv so that it is run every time you
boot it up.
> > one of my colleagues here tells me
> > that linux has been installed as a desktop and not a
> > server, so other people on the LAN cant access my
> > system.
Ask him to join the LIH too :) Its too much informative for people
like us. BTW Almost all medium size servers sit on the top of the desk
nowdays ;-)
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