Hi Geeks,

I enabled here telnet:
[root@dell02 xinetd.d]# cat telnet
# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
# unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}
and restartet de daemon
[root@dell02 xinetd.d]# ps -ef | grep xinetd
root 969 1 0 Feb04 ? 00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfil
root 2522 1197 0 11:31 pts/0 00:00:00 grep xinetd
[root@uaila36 xinetd.d]# kill -1 969

when i try to telnet as root i get what you see (from localhost, via ssh) as normal user it works !!

[root@dell02 xinetd.d]# telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
Kernel 2.4.18-3 on an i686
login: root
Password:
Login incorrect

login: Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@dell02 xinetd.d]#

i am not sure and believe this is a PAM problem, but I dont know how to enable it via PAM.

I know that telnet is a insecure service!!! i am behind a Firewall-1 (checkpoint) in a trusted network

thanx for answer

greetz
adme

the answer is:

[root@dell02 pam.d]# cat /etc/securetty
# für Telnet
pts/0
pts/1
pts/2
pts/3
pts/4
pts/5
pts/6
pts/7
pts/8
pts/9
pts/10
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
tty10
tty11
[root@dell02 pam.d]#

Not sure how useful that was..

But, some time ago... RedHat 6 I think it was, they disabled the ability to login as root via telnet.

I'm not entirely sure how / if you can turn it back on, mind.. but this is expected behaviour. Ideally you should use ssh, or telnet as a user and su.

It prevents things like brute-forcing your root password, as you can lock out a user who's being hacked (via telnet), but can't ideally do that for root.

Slick.