On Thu Sep 24 1998, "Richard Sanford" wrote:
> I have setup a Linux machine using RED Hat CD's. The machine seems to work.
> But, when I try to telnet to the machine, I have a problem.
>
> The telnet daemon is running, this I can tell.
Well, not really... you have the inetd daemon running, which calls the
telnet daemon to answer requests on that port.
> My main problem is when I put in the user name and password. It just
> keeps failing the login.
You can't (by default) telnet in as "root" - only as a valid user on the
server system. This is a common trap for the unwary.
> If any one has any ideas in where I could look. I would like to debug this
> problem.
It should work by default, especially on RH systems (that have the
networking tools installed, of course).
Make sure you have the inetd daemon running ("/etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd start").
Make sure that you aren't getting rejected by tcp-wrappers
(/etc/hosts.{allow,deny} ).
Check the logs in /var/log/ - what do they say?
Cheers
Tony
