Is your machine having se-linux enabled ? -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Rieger Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 4:10 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Telnet and SSH login problems with Red Hat Enterprise ES4 Georges I. Carraha wrote: > Hello > > We have successfully set up Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES4 and we are > now trying to connect remote clients to connect to it. > > The problems we are having are as follows: > > a) TELNET > If we connect with telnet, we get the login prompt. We use any valid > login name & password combination (including root), we get the > response "Login incorrect" and then the login prompt repeats. How can > we allow remote telnet connections? We know telnet is strongly not > recommend because of security reasons. However, we still want o know what is > prevent the telnet connections. BTW, the telnet service is running and > the iptables services is not running. > > b) SSH > If we connect with SSH, we can log in with "root". However, we can > not connect with any other account because it says "connection refused > by server". How can we allow other users to connect with SSH. We > have checked the sshd_conf file but do not know exactly what setting > would be causing this problem. > > > Regards, > Georges Carraha > mailto:CarrahaG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Aruba Digital Systems N.V. > > havent used telnet in years, (read about the security issues in this matter) so cant help you. as for ssh do the users have /home/~ dirs are you authenticating via passwd or keys only ? can you post your sshd_config file ? -- www.up-south.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
