On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Chris Rae wrote:
> I have a Linux machine set up using RedHat which works very well. I have
> it networked with two PCs running Windows 95 and what I want to do is get
> a telnet session to my Linux box from one of my Windows 95 machines. I can
> telnet to it and log in as a user but I can't log in as root. I'm as sure
This is a security measure. It is normal. So you normally log on
as user than do su and you'll be root.
> as I can be that this is due to some sort of configuration thing in
> /etc/securettys or /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow - am I right? And,
> if so, what do I do to them?
/etc/hosts.* specify to inetd which servers are allowed/denied to
do something.
Raider
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