How to configure a few things on 5.2 out of the box? Pop and telnet don't work!

[Dean Malandris]

OK, new installation of RH5.2 and by copying my sendmail.cf file from the
Slackware installation on another drive, I can now send mail out. But I
can't POP into the RH box from another machine on the LAN. By telnetting
into port 110 on the RH box from a text console, I find that after I give it
my root password, it comes back with " -ERR Bad login"

If I create another "POP only" account using the graphical linuxconfig tool,
and then telnet into 110 and supply name and password, I'm in.

So why can't I get in as root? What am I missing here?

Also, I can't telnet into the box itself. Going to a console and telnetting
into the machine, I keep getting "login incorrect" even though I supply the
root password.

I remember things like the /etc/ftpuser file removing permissions from IDs
such as root, but can't recall any reason for removing permissions from root
using POP or telnet.

My Slackware installation gives me none of these problems; thing is I set it
up ages ago and can't remember if you need to do anything to enable root
account access to POP3 or telnet. I don't see why you'd have to.

All the obvious config files between the two systems look the same. Can
anyone tell me what I'm missing here?
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[Javier Juez Santamaría]

Dean Malandris wrote:

...

Also, I can't telnet into the box itself. Going  to a console and telnetting
into the machine, I keep getting "login incorrect" even though I supply the
root password.

I remember things like the /etc/ftpuser file removing permissions from IDs
such as root, but can't recall any reason for removing permissions from root
using POP or telnet.
 

root can't do that cause Linux don't want you do that. Use your personal login
to connect throw LAN.

 
My Slackware installation gives me none of these problems; thing is I set it
up ages ago and can't remember if you need to do anything to enable root
account access to POP3 or telnet. I don't see why you'd have to.
 

Did you ever heard about sniffers? The root password MUST be secret.

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[Dean Malandris]

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:30:49 +0100, Javier Juez
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Santamar=EDa?= <jj...@sorolla.eis.uva.es> wrote:

>root can't do that cause Linux don't want you do that. Use your personal login
>to connect throw LAN.

Yes, I'm aware of the reasoning, but I need to run as root in certain
instances. That's why I have my Slackware installation set up that
way.

[Dean Malandris]

Fixed telnet (securetty,duh) but still stumped on POP access.

[Edward van Hazendonk]

The thing which goes wrong is your /etc/securetty settings.
You'll have to add /dev/ttyp0 till for instance 9 to it, this will create 10
possibilities to log into the system.

Edward van Hazendonk
edward_van...@csi.com

Dean Malandris wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:30:49 +0100, Javier Juez
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Santamar=EDa?= <jj...@sorolla.eis.uva.es> wrote:
>

> >root can't do that cause Linux don't want you do that. Use your personal login
> >to connect throw LAN.
>

[Zdenek Skalak]

>
> Also, I can't telnet into the box itself. Going to a console and telnetting
> into the machine, I keep getting "login incorrect" even though I supply the
> root password.
>
> I remember things like the /etc/ftpuser file removing permissions from IDs
> such as root, but can't recall any reason for removing permissions from root
> using POP or telnet.
>

I've had this problem with RedHat 5.2 too, when I looked carefully, I
realized then it didn't instalf tcpd (tcp daemon). So I could ftp,
telnet to other, but other's couldn't ftp, telnet to me. So look into
/usr/tcp if ther are tcpd* files (it should be tcpd, tcpdchk, tcpmatch),
if not, get then and problem should be solved :-). If not, try anything
else :-)
By
Zdenek
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[aut...@my-dejanews.com]

If you telneting as root you need to add ttyp0 to your /etc/securetty file

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