Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Telnet Daemon

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

On 06/08/2010 15:50, Bradlee Landis wrote:
> 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...
>    
I am unable to log in as root to SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) 
which also works thru xinetd. This used to work but at some point in the 
upgrade cycle it broke. I don't need SWAT so I am not too bothered. But 
it might be that we have the same underlying problem...

Dominic