Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Telnet Daemon

[Bradlee L. <bra...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote:
> Sorry, but no support for a telnet server at all.
> If your boss ask: DL is a security oriented distribution and you can't
> get much more unsecure than using telnet. Well okay, empty passwords
> maybe.... ;-)

Well, I agree that it's unsecure. But if people want to put the
security of their system at risk, then I will allow them to do so as
long as they know what they are doing. It's not my place to tell them
no. I can tell someone that jumping out of a plane is bad, but that
doesn't mean I can stop them from doing it.

I've actually found that telnetd is on Devil Linux. It's under
/usr/sbin/krb5/telnetd. I am able to telnet in after creating
/etc/xinet.d/krb5-telnet, and turning off all other xinetd services,
but it's not letting me log in as root. I'm thinking that the problem
is with /etc/securetty...

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Thanks,
Brad Landis