Re: Networking with 6.2

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Steve Jardine wrote:

> All,
>
>     I am trying to put up a copy of RedHat 6.2 for the Sparc, and
> 7.1 for x86. Bot of these version will not allow anyone to telnet to
> them from a remote system on the same network. Any ideas on how I
> can fix this situation?  I would like to allow telnet, ftp, and
> httpd.
>
>     Thanks in advance.
>  --
>
> 		Regards,
>
> 			Steve Jardine
>
For the 6.2 system, you need to edit /etc/inetd.conf and enable telnet.
For 7.1, you need to enable it in xinetd.  I believe you can use
chkconfig to do this.  You will also have to make sure that you have the
telnet server package installed.

Access is also controlled by /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, so
you may have to make changes there as well.  Also, telnet access by root
is disabled by default.

for ftp, you have to go through the same procedures as telnet.  For
httpd, once you have it configured the way you want, you can use
chkconfig to turn it on, so that it starts at boot.  Running
"service httpd on" will start httpd.  It does not set things so that
httpd will start on bootup.

One thing to remember - you have tell inet or xinetd that you have
changed their configuration files before the changes will take affect.
Restart them, or send then a SIGHUP.

Mikkel
 --

    Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
 for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.