[newbie] Problems with xinetd, telnet, and mandrake 7.2
Hello,
I wanted to have the telnet service running under Mandrake 7.2. This box is
not used for anything secure, so I don't worry about telnet and clear
passwords.
I read up on xinetd, and added a file called telnet to my /etc/xinetd.d
directory. that file looks like this:
# default: on
# description: Telnet Server
service telnet
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/tcpd
server_args = in.telnetd
}
I did:
ps -aux | grep xinetd
kill -USR2 pid
telnet localhost
at this point, I see this:
# telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
but I never see a login prompt, or the message saying "welcome to mandrake
7.2" or something like that. before I added this telnet file to
/etc/xinetd.d, I would get connection refused.
Any ideas? I'm running 2.2.17, and have kept up with major security updates.
Thanks,
Kevin
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