[SunHELP] telnet proplems on a solaris7 e450

[Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro]

hi,

if you try to telnet as root, then you'll have no success ever ... because
telnet is not supposed to serve root user, because of security reasons.

Adrian FLOREA .

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Simon Jespersen wrote:

> Hi !
>
> If i do a netstat i can se 2 telnet services... im able to telnet from the
> server but not in to the server. I have chekked my inetd.conf and services
> files again and they are fine, i compared the files with another server
> withoput problems. So it is very strange
>
> best regards
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Matthew Hattersley
> Sent: 10. april 2003 11:25
> To: Sun solaris help list
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] telnet proplems on a solaris7 e450
>
>
> have you rnu netstat to see if the daemon is listening?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Jespersen [mailto:shj at pine.dk]
> Sent: 10 April 2003 09:44
> To: Sun solaris help list
> Subject: [SunHELP] telnet proplems on a solaris7 e450
>
>
> Hi experts!
>
> I have a problem on a solaris 7 machine with the telnet service.
>
> I cannot telnet into the systems.
>
> I have chekked the inetd.conf and the /etc/services files, they look
> correct.
>
> when i telnet to the systems it just refuses me. I can access the system
> from x windows with a pc or from the console.
> I get no errors in the message file
> i suspect that it could be something with permissions on some os file.
>
> any suggestions would be very nice
>
> Kind regards
>
> Simon
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