Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Telnet Daemon

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

You're more than likely have to create the service in /etc/pam.d
I usually just copy another one and then give it the right name (i.e. swat)

Heiko

Quoting Dominic Raferd <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
>
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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
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