Hi! On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 13:07, Dave Anderson wrote: > As part of setting up Bering, I want to be able to telnet to it from the > localnet. Are the following steps sufficient? > > > - open up port 23 in shorewall, from localnet to fw > - make sure hosts.allow allows it > - uncomment telnet for inetd in my /etc/inetd.conf the last entry for telnet (which is the actual daemon program, that inetd will start upon a connection to the telnet port) is /usr/sbin/in.telnetd the in.telnetd binary however is not included in the bering disk image. And for a good reason. Telnet uses cleartext passwords and no encryption whatsoever, making it useful mostly for crackers, that want to hijack your system...
Consider using the ssh protocol instead (see openssh.org for info about the open source implementation). there is also a LRP package available from http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/ the webpage of the bering developer, including straightforward documentation on how to set it up for bering. The only thing to consider is that the sshd-package is relatively big and might not fit on a single floppy setup. You could use telnet, if you find a lrp-package in one of the collections (containing the telnetd binary), and you absolutely only allow connections from your internal lan. However if for example a windows machine in your LAN suddenly catches a trojan, this could mean that a cracker is able to sniff your password and gets easy root access to your bering router, so I would definitely not recommend it. Start using ssh now, it does the same thing as telnet, yet it is a much more secure solution (using encryption all the way). There is also a small, but very useful (to windows users, that is, others of course use the openssh-client) ssh-client for windows called putty. (search for it with google, if you need it). > - add ttyp0 to secure ports for root login > - do I need a line in inittab to run a getty for ttyp0 ? If so, is the > syntax the same as a tty0? I don't think either is necessary as the logins will be handled by the sshd/telnetd daemon program. (I know for sshd, which I use). Fabian -- Fabian Linzberger - mobile: ++4369919568768 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - icq: 102927865 - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fighting for Socialism: www.worldsocialist-cwi.org - www.slp.at Do yourself a favor - use and support Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user How do I request help? http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html