RE: Telnet

[Robert Finneran]

Not sure, but a couple tips:   - Does your firewall settings permit telnet (actually your telnet clients would report an error so this isn't it - telnet often does not allow a remote user to log in as root - Wild guess /etc/hosts.allow ? /etc/hosts.   Okay, the truth is I was really writing to warn you that telnet is from the devil!!!   (No not Bill from M$, the real Satan)   Telnet uses clear-text (or some really worthless encoding technique, like Base-64) to send passwords over the internet, as well as the rest of your data.   You should seriously consider using ssh instead. You can use the ssh command on any linux box or using cygwin. I also like (mostly) the ssh client for Win32 from www.f-secure.com. They have a 30 trial. O'reilly has a good book all about ssh.   You can also replace evil things like rlogin with ssh and the scp copy program is great!!!   Beware of the evil telnet!!!   Rob     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Madhvi Nundalalee Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Telnet Hello I am using Red Hat 7.1.   I enabled telnet in the telnet file under xinetd.d directory and I could telnet into my server from another PC as well as locally.   On rebooting the server, if I try to telnet from a remote Pc or locally I get the following message : -   Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686 login: -h for super-user only. do u have a solution to this dilemna.   Cheers Madhvi