[ale] Telnet problem

[David Corbin]

Yep.  Permissions.  And, I know what I did to screw them up....

Thanks for the tip.
Dave Brooks wrote:
> 
> hmm, that'ts odd.  Does the same thing happen with ssh?
> 
> Though I dont recommend using telnetd because of blatant security issues,
> make sure that the permissions of login are correct.  On my system (RH 6.2):
> 
> [dbrooks at tuna dbrooks]$ ls -l `which login`
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        20452 Mar  7  2000 /bin/login
> 
> Also, make sure telnetd is running.  Some installations disable telnetd by
> default (which is a Good Thing[tm]).  Ensure that its not commented out in
> /etc/inetd.conf.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> dave
> 
> Thus spake David Corbin,
> >I have a relatively new server (Debian Potato).
> >
> >Yesterday, I could telnet to it without problem.  Today, I get
> >
> >       Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 torvalds.machturtle.com
> >       telnetd: /usr/lib/telnetd/login: Permission denied
> >       .
> >       Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> >This appears to happen from all remote systems.  The /etc/hosts.allow
> >file is correct.  The only changes I made yesterday that I'm aware of
> >were apache related.  The log files give no additional information.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks much.
> >
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> david anthony brooks
> systems engineer
> comstar.net, inc.
> dbrooks at comstar.net

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