5.1 & telnet

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Darryl Hoar wrote:
> 
> >Greetings,
> >I have tried to get putty configured to access my 5.1 release box using
> >SSH.  No joy, and I'm quite tired of trying.
> >
> >I tried to enable telnet on my 5.1 box.  Uncommented inetd.conf line, and
> >verified that the services line was in place.   I tried to connect to the
> >box
> >with telnet and got a connection refused.  Even rebooted the box with the
> >same result.
> >
> >I am accessing this box on my internal network, and my firewall blocks
> >the telnet port, so I'm not worried about outside access.  So, telnet will
> >get me by for now.
> >
> >Any ideas what's wrong ?

Did you configure hosts.allow and such, for the ssh session.
Also is you PuTTY SSH set for ssh-1 or ssh-2?

////jerry

> >BTW, searched the mailing list archives on freebsd.org , but didn't find
> >info about this.
> >
> >thanks,
> >Darryl
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> "Your firewall blocks the telnet port" ...
> Are you sure that:
> 
>     1.  Your firewall is not blocking the port
>           on your LAN interface as well?
>     2.  Your telnet/PuTTY session is attempting
>           to connect to the correct interface?
> 
> Kevin Kinsey
> 
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