Since I can login on under a different username/password, it appears that I
have disabled root access via telnet. How would I re-enable that?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddie Strohmier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 12:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Cannot Telnet to Server
>
>
> Have you checked your /etc/hosts.deny file on the RH 6.x
> machine at work to
> be sure your not denying access. Also check your inetd.conf
> to be sure that
> ftp line is not commented out. You say you telneted in before
> and had no
> problem so I would not think that would be a problem. Can you
> login as any
> other user? Also in the /etc/passwd file is your shell setup
> to allow login
> or in other words is it not set to /dev/null or /bin/false? I
> usually see
> /bin/bash to allow telnet on my own machine. If this is all
> ok have you
> tried creating another user just to see if you could login with that
> username and password? I will probably think of more I have
> ran into later
> but check those first and see if that gives you your fix. If
> hosts.deny is
> set to deny an IP that person logging in will usually get
> connection refused
> so it may not be that either. I wonder if something has
> changed in pam.d to
> cause this. What does /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure say on the
> machine at work when you try this?
>
>
>
> Eddie Strohmier
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tanner, Robby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:01 AM
> Subject: Cannot Telnet to Server
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm running RedHat 6.x on a PC here at work. I can log in locally
> > but not over a telnet connection. I was able to previously
> and don't
> think
> > I have changed any of the configuration for this machine.
> Since it is
> only
> > for testing, I haven't had any reason to worry about it
> being comprised
> and
> > have left telnet running.
> > When I try a telnet connection and type in the username/password I
> > get a "Login incorrect" message and another "login:"
> prompt. The same
> > username/password works locally. How can I establish get
> this working?
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > Robby Tanner B.E., B.Sc.
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