On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:45:21PM -0500, Jonathan Hendler wrote: > Hi, I am not sure if this is a newbie, or experienced question,,, > which means that it is probably a newbie question. > > I have been trying to allow telnet access to my machine > > In securetty I have all the options I have seen. In hosts.allow, for > this test I have ALL: ALL among specified users in the inetd.conf i > have telnet streem tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd > > but there is no in.telnetd in the /user/sbin... > > I am stumped but also don't know if this has anything to do with the > TCP wrapper or what > > thanks Jonathan Hendler - Maine
You probably need to install a telnetd. You can check if you have one with 'dpkg -S in.telnetd'. Or just... $ apt-get install telnetd or $ apt-get install telnetd-ssl -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller [email protected] | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+

