Re: potato security ;(
Drew Parsons wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> can anyone help me sort out the security on my potato box? I had no
> problems like this with slink...
>
> I have sshd running, which I believe is responsible for handling incoming
> telnet connections. I want to be able to telnet into my machine from
> certain defined addresses (eg from home).
>
> I've added what I thought were the appropriate entries in /etc/hosts.allow:
> ALL: home.machine.edu work.machine.edu
> Whenever I attempt to telnet in from work.machine (not
> it's real name), I get:
> Connected to strider [my machine].
> Debian GNU/Linux potato strider
> login: permission denied
> Terminated
If you are actually getting as far as a login: prompt, this isn't a
hosts.allow problem. What's in your /etc/pam.d?
--Greg
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