I guess for the sake of academia, I'm still interested in how to go about
enabling and disabling this functionality. I fully understand the
implications of allowing root access via telnet and am prepared to suffer
the consequences.
Can someone please explain how to enable/disable root access via telnet?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddie Strohmier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Cannot Telnet to Server
>
>
> Oh, your trying to login as root with root password. Not a good way to
> login. By default RH will not allow you to telnet in as root.
> First login as
> your own username and password then type su, hit enter and it
> will prompt
> your for another password which is the root password. To see
> who you are
> logged in as at anytime just type whoami at the prompt. It
> will come back as
> root or the user you logged in as or the user that you
> changed to with su.
>
>
> Eddie Strohmier
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tanner, Robby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 1:30 PM
> Subject: RE: Cannot Telnet to Server
>
>
> > 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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