telnetd mystery ....

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/30/2013 09:37 AM, jdow wrote:
>
> On 2013/01/29 06:23, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> SELinux getting in the way in one of the two cases?
>

No, I eliminated that early on....  Another manifestation of the problem is "garbled" output....

Connected to f18x.
Escape character is '^]'.
Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
Kernel 3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64 on an x86_64 (3)
18x login:
           assword:
                    ast login: Wed Jan 30 08:27:30 on :0
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For which a bugzilla has already been filed.


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