Taso Hatzi wrote:
>
> Travis Low wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed that the Mandrake 6.1 distribution contains a broken
>telnet package? After a few hours fiddling with /etc/hosts.allow|deny, I found there
>was no /usr/sbin/in.telnetd (mental note: check /var/log/messages sooner). I fixed
>the problem by uninstalling the default telnet and installing the
>
> The telnet service is provided by the /usr/sbin/tcpd daemon.
> What made you think the distribution was broken?
> -
No, it's not. Witness the line from inetd.conf:
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
I challenge you to try to telnet to a box which is using tcpd as a
telnet server; without renaming in.telnetd to tcpd, it cannot be done.
tcpd functions as a wrapper to various TCP protocols; it does not
replace them. You could certainly run in.telnetd all the time, if you
so desired and were that crazy.
Travis:
Did the package come with a telnetd (as opposed to in.telnetd)? Had you
the telnet daemon, it doesn't really matter what you name it, as long as
that name is reflected in inetd.conf (you're not running telnetd all the
time, are you?). Actually, you'd be better off relegating telnet to the
back burner and going with something like ssh.
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