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Re: enable telnetd?

From Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: enable telnetd?
Date 2016-06-03 03:40 +0200
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Sven Arvidsson composed on 2016-06-02 20:59 (UTC+0200):

> On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 00:48 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> Google cannot provide an answer to configuring telnetd WRT Debian, only WRT
>> every other distro on the planet. When I try to login after installing
>> telnetd and seeing xinetd enabled, login name is always greeted with "Login
>> incorrect". Telnet login works in openSUSE and Fedora via /etc/pam.d/remote,
>> but that file is missing in Stretch, and copying one from openSUSE doesn't
>> have any apparent effect.

>> I have no interest in answers explaining ssh and security risk. These are
>> understood. All I'm interested in is capturing dmesg and logs from a test
>> installation while normal logins are busy with segfaulting or otherwise
>> inaccessible.

> Does logging in through telnet not work at all, or just not as root?

Failure differs. With login root, password entry is not offered. With other 
user, password entry is offered, but is "incorrect".
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enable telnetd? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-02 06:50 +0200
  Re: enable telnetd? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-06-02 21:10 +0200
    Re: enable telnetd? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-03 03:40 +0200
  Re: enable telnetd? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-06-02 22:10 +0200
    Re: enable telnetd? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-03 04:30 +0200
      Re: enable telnetd? Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 05:20 +0200
      Re: enable telnetd? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-06-03 15:20 +0200

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