need help with telnet

HyperTrey · 02-16-2007, 03:05 PM

I know I should be using SSH, however my boss is old school and keeps telling me telnet is what he wants and SSH is useless. So in a hope to make him happy I setting up a telnet server. I still personally use ssh.

I have gotten the ability to telnet to the server now. I cant seem to be able to into the actual machine. Saying the login is incorrect. I know the name and password is correct. is there a way to fix this?

pljvaldez · 02-16-2007, 03:12 PM

Is he using a linux box or Windows box? Either way, you use ssh just like telnet, what exactly is his problem? If a linux box, you could just make telnet a symbolic link to ssh...

HyperTrey · 02-16-2007, 03:33 PM

he is 70 years old and set in his ways. He is using a windows box to telnet to. and he is STUCK on the idea of using telnet. I got it working. It just wont recognize the user name and password. The machine is logged in as root, would that be the problem?

pljvaldez · 02-16-2007, 03:37 PM

You mean you're trying to log in as root or the root account is permanently logged in at the console? Can you log in and su to root?

You might muck through the telnet config file in /etc and see if there's a "rootlogin=no" type line...

What does he use for telnetting in? If he uses putty, the difference is clicking the little ssh button instead of telnet...

Also, is this an important production box? If so, I might be tempted to tell him telnet no longer allows it or something like that and force the move to ssh.

runlevel0 · 02-21-2007, 05:39 AM

Just use this syntax:

Code:

telnet -l LOGINNAME HOST

That should do the trick.