I have mandrake linux installed on machine that I want to be able to
telnet, ftp or ssh into from other hosts on the LAN.
Diane,
I'm feeling fractious today, so please pardon the blunt response, but if
you're willing to enable telnet, why waste your time setting up ssh? By
leaving telnet open, you still leave your machine wide open to various
attacks, most obviously by packet sniffers that can see people's
in-the-clear passwords.
Make sure the various lines in /etc/services are also uncommented. To check
ssh, assuming you already have it built, simply execute
(/usr/local/sbin/sshd &)
from a root shell on thathost and then execute
ssh thathost
from another machine on your LAN. You might also want to sniff with tcpdump
to see what packets get slung back and forth. Something like
tcpdump -i eth0 host thathost
should show you packets going to or from thathost. Consult the tcpdump man
page for more details on filter expressions.
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Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(847)971-7098
