On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Ulf Lundstr\366m wrote:
> AFAIK, to get telnet working as fast as possible, you need to set up the
> host files on both the Linux and NT box. I think the hosts file is
> called lmhosts on a NT box. Setting this will make the telnet connect
> part faster.
This is not necessary, but if you haven't set up your DNS properly your
telnet sessions can suffer from connection delays while DNS lookups time
out. Manually entering host/IP translations into your hosts files will
bypass DNS lookups (and hence timeouts) for those hosts (provided your
/etc/host.conf contains "order hosts, bind").
> I don't know if there is a way of telneting as root into a Linux... (You
> can into a UnixWare.. ;p ) But why would you do that... Don't tell me
> that you always use the root account...
You can certainly login into the root account on Linux machines via
telnet, provided that several telnet ttys are listed in /etc/securetty.
Login checks terminals against this file, so if you want to be able to log
into a machine's root account you should add three or four (or as many as
necessary) ttys to /etc/securetty. Needless to say, this is not a good
idea.
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