Re: Argh! Telnet Denied!

[Martin Sieben <martins aia tartu ee>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, James Q. Stansfield wrote:

>
>             Can anyone tell me how to change the Firewall settings that
> are set during installation? I think my problem stems from there. I
> can't telnet into my machine on any port even thought I've got things
> configure correctly. (I think. <grin>) I'm pretty sure I may have
> disabled telnet via the Firewall page during installation because I was
> going to install SSH. I have installed SSH but now I can't get sendmail
> to work. Any attempt to connect to port 25 returns a 'Access is
> denied..' message. I can't even telnet locally to the port from the
> machine without getting the same error.

It could also be caused by xinetd. Check out /etc/xinetd.d/* and
/etc/xinetd.conf

Regards,
Martin Sieben
Server and network security
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