Matthew Vanecek wrote:
>
>
> No, it's not. Witness the line from inetd.conf:
>
> telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
>
Doesn't this support what I said?. Inetd fires up tcpd to service
requests comming in on the telnet port. It does it's business &
hands job over to 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.
It's a non-challenge. I've got two Mandrake 6.1 systems which work
fine straight out of the box. There must be something pretty odd about
your setup.
This is what tcpd & in.telnetd look like on my sys.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24948 May 6 1999 /usr/sbin/tcpd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37212 Aug 20 12:59
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd:
$Id: telnetd.c,v 1.9 1996/12/29 18:16:33 dholland Exp $
$Id: state.c,v 1.8 1996/08/22 23:36:36 dholland Exp $
$Id: termstat.c,v 1.3 1996/08/15 04:51:15 dholland Exp $
$Id: slc.c,v 1.3 1996/08/16 18:49:26 dholland Exp $
$Id: sys_term.c,v 1.10 1997/04/06 01:05:16 dholland Exp $
$Id: utility.c,v 1.6 1996/11/24 16:33:07 dholland Exp $
$Id: global.c,v 1.2 1996/07/16 08:58:22 dholland Exp $
$Id: authenc.c,v 1.4 1996/08/15 08:35:08 dholland Exp $
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