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Unable to telnet to Linux (ftp ok and putty ok)


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Youssef JD

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I have just finshed installing Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3. I configured telnet to be enabled (default anyway). I can telnet but the password keeps failing. Eventhough that I can ftp with the same login and password successfully. I can also use putty with the same password and login successfully. But telnet keeps saying password incorrect.
Can you help?

Edited by Youssef JD, 28 January 2006 - 10:09 PM.

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Kemasa

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Are you using a non-root account? Have you checked /var/log/secure and/or other logs to see why it is failing?

What occurs? Is there any error message?

Do you have telnetd installed? Is it enabled as a service?

You might also consider using ssh instead of telnet for security reasons.

Edited by Kemasa, 28 January 2006 - 10:54 PM.

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I am using a root login with root password (same one used for ftp and ssh).
the var/log/secure indicates an Authentication Failure.
telnetd is installed and enabled as a service.
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Try it with a non-root account and I think you will find that it works.

You are running into a security issue which does not allow root access. You can move the file /etc/securetty which will allow root access or edit the file to allow access on the requested ports or don't login as root (a good idea).
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