Henning Jebsen wrote: > I tried a different approach: I simply copied in.telnetd and > libncurses.so.5 from another maschine (same kernelversion) to the > leafbox. Modifications to inetd.conf and that stuff. > > Now telnetd is running, port 23 TCP is open for local access. > I can connect to the firewall, but it closes the session before login. > Right after "telnet <IP-ADRESS> the "connection is closed by foreign > host". /var/log/[messages|syslog|auth] is complaining nothing, just > realizes correctly the attempt of login via telnet. > > Trying 192.168.1.1... > Connected to fw. > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host. > > What am I missing ? hosts.allow is set correctly because I can connect > to weblet, which is also run by inetd. > > Any hints ? Any more libraries needed ? Telnet did only comlain about > libncurses.so.5 which I did provide.
You may want to check your syntax in hosts.allow,deny more thoroughly, sounds like the same symptoms with ssh connection failures: http://www.snailbook.com/faq/libwrap-oops.auto.html Have you tried connecting with netcat (nc)? -- Patrick Benson Stockholm, Sweden ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html