telnetd on mandrake (or, i seem to have been whacked with a stupid stick!)

[Robert Meyer]

Hmmm... It should be called in.telnetd and it should be in /usr/sbin.  If it's
there, you also have to make sure that the entry for telnet is uncommented from
the /etc/inetd.conf file so that inet can fork the thing when you attempt to
connect.  The line will say something like:

telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.telnetd

Note that it's using 'tcpd'.  This the TCPWrappers system that you can use to
limit access to the telnet on the machine.  Look at the man pages for
hosts.deny and hosts.allow.  You can do some pretty interesting stuff with
that.  If you don't want to limit the attempts to log in, then simply make sure
that everything is commented out of /etc/hosts.deny.

If you don't have in.telnetd on the machine, get your mandrake CD and install
the 'telnet-server' package (at least that's what I think it's called).

Let us know how you are doing with it.

Cheers!
--- Richard.Hubbard at nhwny.com wrote:
> In my nefarious plot to get our NT boxes switched to Linux, I have a test
> server running Samba (not 2.2 yet, that will come soon!).
> 
> However, I wish to configure this machine for remote access, and I can't
> seem to find telnetd.
> 
> Am I looking for the right daemon?  Did I forget to install it?
> 
> If I forgot to install it, how to I add packages to Mandrake? (i'm really
> spoiled.  Although slackware is officially harder, I could always run
> 'setup' as root and install packages.  I'm really clueless with Mandrake.)
> 
> A pointer to the HOWTO or man page would be remembered forever, thanks!
> 
> Richard A. Hubbard III
> MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD, MCT, CLI, CLP,LCI,LCP,
>  A+, Net+,I-net+
> Training Manager, New Horizons Buffalo
> richard.hubbard at nhwny.com
> phone (716) 681-8500 x2241
>            (716) 206-2241 Direct
> fax      (716) 206-2222
> 


=====
Bob Meyer
Knightwing Communications, Inc.
36 Cayuga Blvd
Depew, NY 14043
Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
Meyer_RM at Yahoo.com

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
http://auctions.yahoo.com/