[nos-bbs] A bad piece of pi...

[jerome schatten]

Agreed Bob, and I appreciate what you’re saying… but I only use telnet inside the lan not for any purpose to or from the internet. And normally I have each computer on the lan locked down with an iptables firewall.

I guess this particular problem has become an academic exercise for me — I do not like not understanding things — in looking hard to see why telnetting ‘into’ this particular pi doesn’t work, even telnetting into itself, I have an opportunity to learn something new. It’s a good day, I figure, when I can learn something new <g>.

Best,
jerome

> On Sep 6, 2016, at 22:46, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty <bobtenty at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jerome,
> 
> You better can use a ssh server in the PI as telnet is highly insecure.
> 
> Bob VE3TOK
> 
> 
> On 2016-09-06 11:01 PM, jerome schatten wrote:
>> Michael…
>> 
>> It certainly looks like the server is disabled.  I believe the server is the daemon ‘telnetd’ and the client is ‘telnet’. I removed both and reinstalled them. I understand that the config files do not get deleted.  I cannot find the configuration file for telnetd, so it must be part of another internet control file.  This pi has only been used to run uronode, but I wonder if uronode in it’s config files, disables the server in favour of some other scheme?  I guess Brian would know, so I copy him on this post.
>> 
>> There is a man page for telnetd and apparently you can get to restart the daemon from the ‘debug’ mode. I’ll look into that.
>> 
>> The firewalls are all disabled — iptables has all ‘ACCEPT’ policies. The only thing running on that affected pi is the OS.
>> 
>> SSH works fine.
>> 
>> jerome
>> 
>> 
> 
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