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

[Richard.Hubbard at nhwny.com]

All installed, thanks.

My issue now is, do I try to set it up so root can telnet in (very bad, i
know, but this is an internal server, and nobody else in the building can
spell telnet, much less use it for messing up my machine), or just set up
sudo (very good, security wise, plus i need the practice) so that I can do
my configurations.

Since i am on the topic, where is it configured that root cannot login via
telnet?

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


                                                                                                                   
                    Robert Meyer                                                                                   
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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
>


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

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