Re: Configuring Telnetd On Suse Linux

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 04/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:21:50 GMT

Renegade wrote:
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> I'm relatively new to Linux and, as a learning environment, have done an
> install of Suse 8.0 on a machine.
>
> I'm currently playing around with the security aspects and noticed
> something. I have telnetd running but when I connect either locally or from
> another box, I automatically connect instead of seeing expected "Login:" and
> "Password" prompts.
>
> In doing some google research, it looks like this behavior has something to
> do with TCP wrappers, but I xcan't find any real details on the appropriate
> configuration.
>
> What's even weirder, is my inetd.conf file has the telnet entry preceded by
> a "#", which I assume means it's commented out. In fact,m every line in
> inetd is commented out, but yet if I scan the system, it reports that the
> telnet, ssh, finger and remote login ports are open and I can connect to 23.
>
> I'm very confused..
>
> Thanks...

Did you restart inetd after commenting those out? And has some friendly
person rootkitted your machine, or do you perhaps have some other
program sitting on those ports? And why, oh why, would you use telnet
instead of SSH for remote access?

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