Drew Parsons wrote: > > Hi, > > can anyone help me sort out the security on my potato box? I had no > problems like this with slink... > > I have sshd running, which I believe is responsible for handling incoming > telnet connections. I want to be able to telnet into my machine from > certain defined addresses (eg from home). > > I've added what I thought were the appropriate entries in /etc/hosts.allow: > ALL: home.machine.edu work.machine.edu > Whenever I attempt to telnet in from work.machine (not > it's real name), I get: > Connected to strider [my machine]. > Debian GNU/Linux potato strider > login: permission denied > Terminated
If you are actually getting as far as a login: prompt, this isn't a hosts.allow problem. What's in your /etc/pam.d? --Greg
