You guys don't do a lot of reading do you? There is a TON of HOWTO's and
documentation spread all over your HDD's that Linux has placed there for
the sole purpose of educating folks in the proper usage and operation of
the Linux operating system and it's related application such as telnet and
other's that are considered system critical apps. I would strongly
recommend that you begin to seriously devour this documentation so that
you don't find yourself in a position where you unknowingly compromise the
security of your systems to the point that you can no longer control who
get's in and what little "gifts" they leave behind. You may be awakened
some morning by men wearing cheap suits and badly made dark glasses
wanting total access to your hard drive(s). It isn't hard to turn some
poor unsuspecting users system into a relay station for all kinds of crap
data without the users knowledge if they've left the security doors
hanging WIDE open.
--
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
* REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496
*/
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 Sen Peng had this to say!
> Hi, I am having a problem with telnet into my linux box too. I can telnet
> into remote sites, but cannot do it other way around. It always tells me
> that "connection closed by foreign host".
>
> In my /etc/inetd.conf I had it setup like following.
> telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd -l -a
>
> Can some one give me idea? what does "-l" and "-a" mean ?
>
> oh... i setup security as medium when I first install the system.
>
> Thanks
> Charels
>
> On 20 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > YOU CAN never ever telnet in as root... it is a security measure that the linux
>developers took. and yes the switch user is the right way to get to root..... You
>must know a user first to get to root or be able to SU... Just another step in the
>security area
> >
> >
> > > ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem with Telnet
> > > ** Original Sender: Fabio Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > ** Original Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:37:19 -0600
> >
> > > ** Original Message follows...
> >
> > >
> > > Hello ALL
> > >
> > > Here I am having a little problem trying to access the linux with
> > > telnet. Its strangeous when root can' t access but any other commom user
> > > can normally. And if I access like a normal user and after this switch
> > > to root with su command, I get root access normally. Why I can't access
> > > as root in telnet directly ? What may be wrong or misconfigurated ?
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > Fabio
> > > from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
> > >
> >
> >
> > >** --------- End Original Message ----------- **
> >
> > >
> >
> > animalTK
> >
> >
>
>
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