Re: telnet doesn't work

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

At 13:00 2000-07-07 +0800, Brad wrote:
>I came across a problem that I 
>can telnet from my RH6.2 box to other 
>workstations,but can't be telneted from 
>other workstations.Do you know what's 
>wrong?

If you're trying to telnet in as root, it won't work. That is disabled by
default in every Linux distro I know of.

If you're trying to login as a normal user, take a look at inetd.conf,
hosts.allow, and hosts.deny. These files control your tcpwrappers config.

 Tony
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