[ale] RH6.0 and enabling 'telnet' and sibs

[Christopher Smiga]

John,

If you are trying to telnet as the root user, you will
be denied access into the machine.  From your Linux
box, try creating an account and telnet into the
system from your remote computer again.  If you can
telnet and login to the computer successfully with
this new account, the problem is that Unix will not
normally let root access into a system through telnet.
 You can however, telnet into the Linux box with your
new account and use the "su" command to bring yourself
up to the root user access over telnet this way.  I
hope this helps.

Christopher Smiga
EMC2 Web Designer
http://members.tripod.com/EMCF


--- John Mills <Jmills at TGA.com> wrote:
> Installation and intial use of RH6.0 (hedwig) have
> gone well (_very_ well, I
> find), but I notice I can't telnet, rsh, etc. into
> my new box. Should I do
> something to expressly enable ordinary-user logins
> by net?
> 
> This worked 'out of the box' in my earlier setups,
> so I never knew what
> permissions were required. I assume I have to set
> something, since I can
> 'ping' the system, but my login requests are
> refused.
> 
> TIA-
>   John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
>   TGA Technologies, Inc.
>   100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
>   e-mail: jmills at tga.com
>   Norcross, GA 30071-3633
>   Phone: 770-421-2100 ext.124 (voice)
>          770-449-7740 (FAX)
> 

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