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Old 07-17-2001, 03:57 PM   #1
AtulGore
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Question Telnet access to RedHat 7.1


I have redhat linux 7.1 and telnet to this machine from network does not work. Have looked into /etc/xinetd.d./telnet and /etc/xinetd.conf nothing seems to be working.

Any help will be appreciated.

thanks ...
... atul
 
Old 07-17-2001, 09:07 PM   #2
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Ok, so it sounds like telnet is not enabled. You'd probably want to enable it then, assuming you want to use it. Another alternative is sshd.
 
Old 07-18-2001, 06:43 AM   #3
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Angry telnet into RH 7.1

Yeah, I am having the same problem at home, along with ftp also. I have had RH 6.1 and 7.0 and have had ftp and telnet services running before.

For RH 7.1
I bought RH 7.1 with a book(RHL 7.1 Secrets, by Naba Barkataki), not a boxed set. I performed the Workstation install class and later had to add the Xinetd rpm(it seems that RH thinks people don't use want these services ?).

Fact: I have looked into the /etc/hosts.allow and the /etc/hosts.deny, both are blank (default for allowing everyone ftp access).

Fact: I have edited the /etc/xinetd.cf file to include the lines that activate ftp and telnet (i.e. ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a) and the same for telnet.

Fact: I have also modified the /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftp and /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file to get ride of the line " disable = yes". If I recall correctly, this disable line was not there before? but I found it nonetheless and deleted it.

Fact: The telnet and ftp (server and client), and xinetd server rpms are installed(they are not by default in the workstation install option).

Fact: ps -ef | grep net gives "xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfil"

Fact: I got ride of all of the ipchains rules for now. I had originally installed the firewall as "high security" but yet chose to allow HTTP, ftp, telnet and ssh. Later I reinstalled and chose "medium security" and still allowed the incoming internet services ftp, telnet etc.

Fact: I open a terminal window as root and telnet or ftp my own ip and 127.0.0.1 and both give me "connection refused".

I have not yet installes the ssh client, but something tells me this problem is system wide.
 
Old 07-18-2001, 10:57 AM   #4
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Ok!! I am not that familiar with firewall part of story. I believe that is was installed as being "low security". BTW, I have not installed this machine.

and I can successfully do telnet localhost and it works like a champ. I can even login as root when I can do telnet localhost.


I do not know if this helps ...

thanks anyway for the responses...
...atul
 
Old 07-23-2001, 10:38 AM   #5
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Have a look at both the telnet and ftp files in the /etc/xinetd.d directory.

Check them for the line only_from = ..., if it's there delete it.
 
Old 07-23-2001, 12:21 PM   #6
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I found out guys, Thanks for your help anyway.

The telnet access was being blocked by the firewall. Ipchains is the command. I had to flush the IP routing table entries.

and it now works like a champ.


Thanks for your anyway, everybody.
 
Old 09-26-2001, 04:09 PM   #7
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Thank you all for your help, the solution (ipchains --flush) worked for me also.

From a Linux Newbie, rapidly becoming a Linx convert.
 
Old 10-05-2001, 10:32 AM   #8
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why use something as unsafe as telnet and ftp? You really might as well shut down your firewall, cause if someone sees ports 21 and 23 open, they will go for it. Red Hat installs and opens SSH by default which is much safer.
 
Old 11-03-2001, 07:56 PM   #9
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To klaus geld

Were you able to get your Telnet & FTP working? I'm facing the same problem as you after installing publisher's edition of RH 7.1 from Mastering Red Hat Linux 7.1 book.
 
Old 11-04-2001, 10:12 AM   #10
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Y'all may want to take a look at the command 'chkconfig' which, when typed with this option:

chkconfig --list |less

will show you all services currently running. To turn telnet on, type:

chkconfig telnet on

Although, personally I avoid telnet like the plague and only ever use ssh.
 
Old 11-13-2001, 03:34 AM   #11
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u better get a newer version of xinetd .i had the same problems .i got xinted.*pre-10 from http://xinetd.org/.they provide a perl script xconv.pl which reads ur inetd.conf file and creates an xinetd.conf file ...i found that it worked.
 
  


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