From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk_at_suse.de)
Date: Sat May 21 2005 - 12:03:30 CEST
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 12:03:30 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20050521100329.GA6600@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] telnet on sles9 hangs at login prompt "login: -h for super-user only."
On Sat, May 21, sles user wrote:
> When i do telnet to the machine which is on sles9, it
> just hangs at the login prompt saying "login: -h for
> super-user only."
^^^^^^^^^^
> Any idea why this is happening ?
Yes, the message is very clear in what is happening.
Since you don't run telnetd as root, telnetd cannot run
/bin/login as root. Very simple.
> Here are the setings on the sles9 machine.
> # cat /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
> service telnet
> {
> socket_type = stream
> protocol = tcp
> wait = no
> user = sles
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> }
>
> # chkconfig -s telnet on
> # chkconfig -t | grep telnet
> telnet xinetd
>
> >From the client when i do a telnet to above sles9
> machine, It just hangs at the prompt
> #telnet -l sles myserver.mydomain.com
> Trying 192.69.180.101...
> Connected to myserver.mydomain.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> login: -h for super-user only.
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