From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 12:11: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.gmx.net (mail2.gmx.net [194.221.183.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A41914BFF for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pons@gmx.li) Received: (qmail 9024 invoked by uid 0); 13 Nov 1999 20:10:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gmx.li) (212.38.131.194) by mail2.gmx.net with SMTP; 13 Nov 1999 20:10:59 -0000 Message-ID: <382DC544.2D4B935E@gmx.li> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 22:08:36 +0200 From: pons X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,arabic MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enabling telnet References: <382D48F8.55203408@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > In inetd.conf, i have telnet enabled. I would like to allow one friend > to telnet to my machine for an account i have set up for him. But is > tells connection refused... port service unavailable..... > > Do i need more entries? Or is this a security feature? BTW, I strongly recommend that you use ssh for communication between local and remote host, ssh will provide a shell but will encrypt the session. -- pons@gmx.li http://neptune.spaceports.com/~pons/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message