telnetd mystery ....

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/29/2013 10:19 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> First....  No need to bring up the ssh v.s. telnet stuff.....
>> Has anyone configured telnetd for use on F18?  Running 64 bit....but this shouldn't make a difference.  Anyway, I did the normal procedure.....
> I just did, and I didn't add -D, but I did change "disabled = yes" to "no"
> in the telnet xinetd config. And it just worked.
>

Thanks for testing.  

That is what I did too....  And it fails as described.   I'm stumped.

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