From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 22:03:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA18991 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:03:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdev.blaze.net.au (sdev.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA18808 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:02:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (davidn@localhost) by sdev.blaze.net.au (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA04601; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:00:09 GMT Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:00:09 +0000 () From: David Nugent To: "John W. Rasins" cc: FreeBSD-questions Mailing List Subject: Re: Permission denied In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19960917202108.8c0f6080@pop3.interramp.com> 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 Tue, 17 Sep 1996, John W. Rasins wrote: >One response has already alluded to what I think is the solution. If you >are trying to telnet in as root, initially the FreeBSD system is setup to >not allow this. ?? It is? I can log in as root and telnet out without any problems - never had a "connection refused as a result of that. That message occurs well before there's been any ident, and the remote host otherwise has no idea of which account you are logged in as; and it shouldn't care in any case. I certainly didn't change anything to allow it, and my setup is very standard. What FreeBSD *does* do is to disallow by default telneting INTO it with the login name of root, and you'd at least see the login prompt to type in the "root" login name before you get disconnected. I don't think that this is the cause of the "connection refused" messages. Sounds more like telnet has been disabled on the remote system(s), or inetd isn't running, which is exactly the result you'd expect in that case.. David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn