If the remote fingers has root access, the I would use the earlier suggestion of the xterm unless your firewall is going to block it.
Can you turn off the firewall temporarily until you can troubleshoot the system? If that is the case, then use the earlier suggestion of installing the telnet server. Scott On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 09:31, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > Javier Gostling wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:04:22AM -0500, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > > > > >>I tried the telnet idea before. It's not even installed. So that's > > > > out. > > > >>but thanks for the suggestion. > > > > > > Ok. Another one is to do an "xhost + remote_host" and have the guy at > > the remote site do "xterm -display your_host:0" so as to have the remote > > xterm window show in your workstations display. Be aware that, most > > likely, a firewall will be blocking you somewhere. > > Yeah, the server itself is running a firewall. (just to make this even > harder). So telnet is blocked. Even if it were installed, it's blocked. > > I'm really down to looking for a set of guesses on why sshd is failing > to start. > > Ric > > An Idea: FTP is enabled. So I can ftp into the box, but only as a > regular user, not as root. I'm doctoring a copy of /etc/passwd, to > switch the UID of a regular user to "0". That would grant root > priveledge during ftp. Then I can grab a copy of /var/log/messages, and > maybe get a clue as to what's happening. I can walk my remote fingers > through a "cp /tmp/passwd /etc/passwd" to put that in place (later > today.. the fingers are out for the morning...). -- Scott Croft Unix Services Micron Technology, Inc. 208.368.1586 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
