What OS is your freind using it is the OS of evil might I suggest the latest dev build of putty. It does not require that she be able to install anything. Standalone .exe the dev build has support for ssh2 public key auth. On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:38:23AM -0700, Jon Hughes wrote: > In order to allow a friend to use a program on my > machine, I wish to let her telnet in (I dislike > telnet, but she's not allowed to install SSH :( ). > > Anyhow, I tried to setup the telnet damian and when I > attempt to start it by hand I get: > > $/usr/sbin/in.telnetd > in.telnetd: getpeername: Socket operation on > non-socket > > The lines in /etc/inetd.conf for this are: > telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -a > valid > > And lastly, if osmeone attempts to telnet in (to let > inetd.conf start it up) the error log shows: > > May 25 13:35:05 c606733-b inetd[4608]: getpwnam: > telnetd: No such user > May 25 13:35:05 c606733-b tcplogd: telnet connection > attempt from NO-IDENTD@[123.456.78.910] > > > Suggestions? Thanks muchly :) > > > ===== > "God, Root. What is the difference?" > Pitr, User Friendly > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- Random numbers are to computers what freewill is to humans. RAH Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
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