Enabling telnet access

2004-06-17 Thread Paal Marker
debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.2.20 I have got some workstations inside a network, and I will need telnet access to them. I have installed telnetd, and it is running. When telneting the box I get into the login, asked for username. When entering a valid username I get this message: "System bootup in pro

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-17 Thread Ronny Aasen
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:46, Paal Marker wrote: > debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.2.20 > I have got some workstations inside a network, and I will need telnet > access to them. > > I have installed telnetd, and it is running. why ohh why are you using telnet when you can use ssh ? i know it was not a an

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed telnetd, and it is running. Why not just use ssh? It just drops in and works, and is a lot more flexable and secure than telnet. -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more. pgp6yJGxoXvgP.pgp

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-18 Thread Paal Marker
Paul Johnson wrote: Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have installed telnetd, and it is running. Why not just use ssh? It just drops in and works, and is a lot more flexable and secure than telnet. Well, telnet is the default inside our network, so I wanted to stick to it. As t

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >>Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>I have installed telnetd, and it is running. >> >>Why not just use ssh? It just drops in and works, and is a lot more >>flexable and secure than telnet. >> > Well, telnet is the default

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:53:21AM +0200, Paal Marker wrote: > Well, telnet is the default inside our network, so I wanted to stick to > it. As the debian-box is inside the local nets firewall and each box has > a strict local firewall, security is not a real issue. Yes it is. Anyone eavesdrop

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-18 Thread Siraj 'Sid' Rakhada
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:12:00 -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone eavesdropping on your network can read your telnet account name and > password from the traffic, since they're sent in clear. Now, if the network > is entirely switched that becomes harder But not too much har

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-18 Thread mike
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:46:41 +0200, Paal Marker wrote > debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.2.20 > I have got some workstations inside a network, and I will need > telnet access to them. > > I have installed telnetd, and it is running. > > When telneting the box I get into the login, asked for username. > W

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When telneting the box I get into the login, asked for username. When > entering a valid username I get this message: > "System bootup in progress -please wait" You probably have an "/etc/nologin" file (containing this text you see) that wasn't deleted b

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Paal Marker wrote: > debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.2.20 You probably really want to consider upgrading to a 2.4 kernel. Debian 3.0r2 supports linux-2.4.18 with security patches. > I have installed telnetd, and it is running. You probably also want to install telnetd-ssl instead. It does not really cha