See if rlogin is on that system, it's supposed to be a more secure flavor of telnet without using ssh. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 26 Aug 2022, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > Man, I thought that would work, but it said it cannot locate a package named > telnetd > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email> > Cc: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx>; <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 7:33 PM > Subject: Re: hopefully some help with AntiX > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 07:18:17PM -0500, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > Then all 1000 ports show up in nmap as closed. > > So it seems if I allow a port in ufw, it shows up as closed, but not > > filtered. > > So filtered means ufw is running, and if 22 gets allowed, it is not > > filtered, but still closed. > > If a port is filtered, ufw is running. If a port is closed, ufw isn't > running, or is allowing that port through, but there is no service > listening on that port. > > It seems you have figured out how to disable ufw, and how to get it to > open ports. If > > apt install openssh-server > > doesn't work, see if > > apt install telnetd > > does. > > Greg > > >