What are your firewall and/or /etc/hosts.allow | /etc/hosts.deny
settings?
Telnet is an insecure protocol and should generally not be used. SSH is
the preferred alternative these days. The Security HOWTO also mentions
a secure telnet replacement using SSL.
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:33:12AM +0200, Vicente Torres wrote:
> When I telnet my machine from another box,
> I get following message
>
> bash-2.02$ telnet mymachine
> Trying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX...
> Connected to mymachine.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> telnetd: getpty: Permission denied
> .
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> bash-2.02$
>
> SSH works well. I think it was after upgrading
> to woody when I started to get this problem.
>
> any idea?
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