> I'm trying to install tewlnet on one of my servers but something is wrong. > I've installed package nkit serv which included the telnetd daemon. I > uncommented the telnet line in inetd.conf in /etc then after resetting the > machine I tried to telnet the server. I'm getting the error message : > connection refused is inetd running? i.e ps waux | grep inetd or rcinetd status what do you get when you run these commands? If not edit /etc/rc.config and set START_INETD="yes" and then run rcinetd start Looking at the output of /var/log/messages with tail -f /var/log/messages on another tty as you try to connect to telnet may yield some interesting information. > I also need to heavily restrict the commands available to people telnetting to > the server. How is this done? (I know it can be done but not how!) BTW, you would be much better off with ssh. Openssh comes with SuSE and is installed by default. use that instead. Just an idea: change the shell to /usr/bin/rbash then edit /home/$user/.profile to have PATH = /usr/local/rbin Create a directory /usr/local/rbin with permissions 0755 and put all the commands that you would like users to use in that directory. This should be quite a simple chroot. restricting the path means that the user will not be able to avoid your restricted shell by simply typing another shell at the shell prompt. dp chattr +i /home/$user/.profile such that the user is unable to change the values in that file since it is only root that cna remove the immutable bit from a file. Noah. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
