On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:17:35PM -0500, Barry Bourdage wrote: > > I am trying to lean more about the local security on a machine. I have > a new install, I can SSH to the box, but not telnet. I have added my > ip range in the allow file, I have turned off the firewall option. What > else am I missing to allow telnet from a local network. > > > > Barry > > You need to turn on the telnet server in xinetd.d > > chkconfig telnet on Alternatively, you can edit the correct configuration text file (one of the strengths of Linux). In this case, it is: /etc/xinetd.d/telnet By default, telnet service (controlled by tcpwrappers, thus the file in xinetd.d) is turned OFF. This is seen by the line in this file: disable = yes To ENABLE telnet, you then comment out this line by simply inserting a # sign at the start of the line. This is exactly what the above chkconfig command does for you. > > You say you've added sites to hosts.allow and adjusted the firewall. > This should finish off turning telnet on. > > -- *************************************************** .~. Jerry Winegarden / v \ OIT/Technical Support, Duke University /( _ )\ jbw@xxxxxxxx, http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu ^ ^ ***************************************************
