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Grim (grim@blitzen.canberra.edu.au) wrote:

: I know this sounds exceptionally stupid, but that is what I have always
: been best at :)
: 
: Never having experienced this problem before I installed a completely new
: 2.0.27 (the whole distribution was new, not just the kernel.)
: 
: Anyway despite having checked the hosts.allow, the hosts.deny, altering
: the inetd.conf files I still can't get access by telnet or ftp even off
: localhost. I just can't figure out why I am not getting in there. Can't
: get mail in either. 
: 
: Previous distributions which I had installed always defaulted to allowing
: access openly. I don't think it is tcpd since I tried changing the
: inetd.conf to open in.telnetd directly as opposed to via tcpd.
: 
: Can anyone put me out of my misery? Thanks.

Your probably trying to login/ftp as root.. Which by default
it wont allow..

For ftp etc /etc/ftpusers

for telnet you need to add the pty's to the /etc/securetty file

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