PPC login puzzle

[Bill Gatliff]

Charles Krinke wrote:
> Seems to me thing you can do is find out why the telnet session is being rejected.  Have you done an ethernet capture? 
>
> Do you have any firewalling setup?  In that case you need to make sure your rules are setup properly.  The ethernet capture should give you a clue. 
>
> Are you sure the telnetd can be found on your system that doesn't work?  What do the logs tell you on the machine that doesn't work?  I think xinetd kicks out a log file, what does that tell you?
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> Have you tried on the 8541,  login to the terminal and then telnet to localhost?  If you can do that, then I'd say it's a firewalling problem, if not, then it's a telnetd type of problem.  
>   

Isn't there a config file that tells telnetd whether a root login is ok?


b.g.

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