From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 15 21:02:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA04837 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA04827 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA16720; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:02:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Dahc@Phoenixnet.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broke my telnetd?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Apr 1997 Dahc@Phoenixnet.net wrote: > I attempted to change to many options at once I guess and got in a little > over my head. I have tried undoing everthing I did but I still get this > error message when I try to telnet into my FreeBSD 2.2.1 machine, wether it > be from a different machine or if I just try to telneting it to itself. > Heres what I get. > > #> telnet 127.0.0.1 > Trying 127.0.0.1 > Connected to 127.0.0.1 > Escape character is '^]'. > > login: -h option: Operation not permitted > Connection closed by foreign host. > #> > > any ideas on what I did?? Make sure that login is suid root, and telnet is run as root in /etc/inetd.conf. telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major