By default you are not allowed to telnet in as root. The 'usual' method is
to telnet in via a standard user account and su to root. It's set up this
way as a security feature.
If you still can't telnet in to your machine check /etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny. Your hosts.deny may be setup to deny outside connections.
There are manual pages for hosts.allow and hosts.deny if you don't know how
to build one.
Hope this helps,
Blair.
On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 03:06:53AM -0600, Steve Ki-Won Lee wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> First of all, does anybody know if the mailing list archives at RH's sites
> are empty for a reason? When I click on a particular mailing list to
> access the archive, I just get a blank page, instead of a list of the
> archive in the usual chronogical order.
>
> Secondly, can someone tell me where I could find help on setting up my
> linuxbox so I could do a local or a remote telnet or rlogin? My friends
> tell me it should be setup already, but for some reason, when I try to
> telnet in, it gives me this error message no matter whether I'm loggin in
> as one of the non-root users or not:
>
> [root@HAL /root]# telnet -l root 24.64.12.208
> Trying 24.64.12.208...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> [root@HAL /root]# telnet -l steve 24.64.12.208
> Trying 24.64.12.208...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> and trying rlogin just does nothing and I have to ^C to kill it. Any help
> on this matter or some direction to a site to help me out would be greatly
> appreciate!
>
> Lastly, I'm missing the /etc/profile file. Would that prevent the
> non-root users from logins? The reason I ask is that I've been able to
> login as non-root user that I created no problems, but all of a sudden it
> stopped working. Once this problem occurred, I tried to upgrade my PAM,
> but it failed cuz of a missing cracklib file, so I upgraded that and PAM
> installed no problem, all rpms of course! :) But I still wasn't able to
> login as a non-root user. I went as far as deleting the users I created
> and add them again, but still a no go. I could login but it just spits me
> back out immediately without any error messages.
>
> I put some messages to be displayed in my .bash_profile, .bash_logout
> files, but they never appear. I'm at a loss right now...if there are any
> systems admin gurus out there, please help me out. Much appreciation in
> advance!
>
> With Best,
>
> Steve
>
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