Telnet and SSH login problems with Red Hat Enterprise ES4

[Steve Rieger]

Georges I. Carraha wrote:
> Hello
>
> We have successfully set up Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES4 and we are  now
> trying to connect remote clients to connect to it.
>
> The problems we are having are as follows:
>
> a) TELNET
> If we connect with telnet, we get the login prompt.  We use any valid
> login name & password combination (including root), we get the response
> "Login incorrect" and then the login prompt repeats.  How can we allow
> remote telnet connections?  We know telnet is strongly not recommend
> because of security reasons.  However, we still want o know what is
> prevent the telnet connections.   BTW, the telnet service is running and
> the iptables services is not running.
>
> b) SSH
> If we connect with SSH, we can log in with "root".  However, we can not
> connect with any other account because it says "connection refused by
> server".  How can we allow other users to connect with SSH.  We have
> checked the sshd_conf file but do not know exactly what setting would be
> causing this problem.
>
>
> Regards,
> Georges Carraha
> mailto:CarrahaG at arubadigital.com
> Aruba Digital Systems N.V.
>
>   
havent used telnet in years, (read about the security issues in this 
matter) so cant help you.

as for ssh

do the users have /home/~ dirs
are you authenticating via passwd or keys only ?
can you post your sshd_config file ?

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