telnetd mystery ....

Richard Sewill rsewill at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 02:13:10 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> 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
> ]0;egreshko at f18x:~[?1034hegreshko at f18x ~]$
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> For which a bugzilla has already been filed.
>

My question may be a red herring, but could there be anything in
your .bash_profile, .bashrc, ... etc files behaving differently between F17
and F18,
causing problems during telnet login?
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