[gentoo-amd64] telnet daemon inetd confusion

[gentoo-amd64] telnet daemon inetd confusion

[Daiajo Tibdixious]

I cannot telnet to my own machine, presumably because no telnet daemon
is running.
I emerged net-misc/netkit-telnetd which contains a
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd -> telnetd
and man 8 telnetd refers to inetd & services. services also refers to inetd,
specifically inetd.conf(5) and inetd(8), neither of which is present.

eix shows only a replacement for inetd, which leads me to suspect that
inetd is intrinsic,
but if so, why no sbin/inetd, and why no man page?
# eix inetd
sys-apps/xinetd
     Available versions:  2.3.13 2.3.14
     Homepage:            http://www.xinetd.org/
     Description:         powerful replacement for inetd

I've searched around and found numerous related documentation, however
they are all for more complicated situations, I just can't see how to
start in.telnetd, which should be blindlingly simple.

All this is so I can telnet/ftp from a Windows machine in the next
room, so I don't have to go for a walk to look something up. It also
means I can have all my documentation on my gentoo machine, rather
than having a copy on the Windows machine for convenience.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] telnet daemon inetd confusion

[Bob Sanders]

Daiajo Tibdixious, mused, then expounded:
> I cannot telnet to my own machine, presumably because no telnet daemon
> is running.

Why not fix the real problem and use one of the ssh variants on windows?

There's a list of options on the openssh page:

   http://www.openssh.com/windows.html

Bob
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] telnet daemon inetd confusion

[Daiajo Tibdixious]

On 2/23/07, Bob Sanders <rsanders@sgi.com> wrote:
> Daiajo Tibdixious, mused, then expounded:
> > I cannot telnet to my own machine, presumably because no telnet daemon
> > is running.
>
> Why not fix the real problem and use one of the ssh variants on windows?
> There's a list of options on the openssh page:
>    http://www.openssh.com/windows.html

Thanks. PuTTY is at least giving me a Username/Password prompt.
I still can't login, however I'm farily sure I can get it working
after learning a bit more about ssh.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] telnet daemon inetd confusion

[Daemon Xavier]

are you trying to ssh to ur main setup, from another computer?  In the
same network, or elsewhere?  I dont know what telnet is, but i can ssh
to my gentoo box whenever i need, i just have to have the ports
forwarded. putty works well for that, but you cant (as far as i have
used it) copy files from the box you ssh'd to, via putty, say from
your linux to windows...

For ssh there is a config file, like on mine i don't let anyone ssh
into root, you have to ssh into a user, they su -.  More of a security
issue, but ya it works.  I can send you a option setup for ssh, and
tell you what to do with it if you want, but other thean that it
shouldn't be to hard to google, and read from there on.

-gl

On 2/22/07, Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Bob Sanders <rsanders@sgi.com> wrote:
> > Daiajo Tibdixious, mused, then expounded:
> > > I cannot telnet to my own machine, presumably because no telnet daemon
> > > is running.
> >
> > Why not fix the real problem and use one of the ssh variants on windows?
> > There's a list of options on the openssh page:
> >    http://www.openssh.com/windows.html
>
> Thanks. PuTTY is at least giving me a Username/Password prompt.
> I still can't login, however I'm farily sure I can get it working
> after learning a bit more about ssh.
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>
>
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] telnet daemon inetd confusion

[Daiajo Tibdixious]

On 2/23/07, Daemon Xavier <daemon.xavier@gmail.com> wrote:
> are you trying to ssh to ur main setup, from another computer?  In the
> same network, or elsewhere?  I dont know what telnet is, but i can ssh

Both computers are on the same N-way switch.
Anyway, its all working now, I had a typo in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
after correcting that I can both login and transfer files using PuTTY.
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