telnet closing connections
 

Hi,

I am having a problem using telnet on a Redhat 7.2. The service is running, but when I try using it , I get the user and password prompt, but after that the connection close. Any ideas. This happens with every user not just root. Thanks

It's probably dening you access for some reason (PAM, hosts.deny, etc). To figure this out, take a look at /var/log/secure and /var/log/messages immediately after a telnet failure. The last lines in one of these two log files should indicate why you are being kicked off immediately.

Also, this may sound rediculous- humor me. Can you verify that the user you are logging in with has a valid shell in /etc/passwd? If it is something like /bin/false, it will explain why telnet boots you out immediately.

I don't think it's a problem with the shell as I can ssh to the system. Thanks for the advice I will check those logs as soon as I get to work