telnet

[jugalator]

Hi people, I'll like to telnet from outside to my box. I used to be able to do that when I was using slackware without any other configuring(cept installing the distro), but now after I had mandrake on my system, I cant telnet in. It kept giving me "connection closed by foreign host". I guess I'll have to screw around with some security files. So where do I change the security configurations to allow anonymus telnet?

[slacker_x]

anonymous telnet?

that would be the stupidest idea ever. While you are at it, why don't you do a rm -rf / ?

first of all, allowing anonymous access to your computer is asking for trouble.
secondly, you should use ssh instead of telnet since telnet transmits all information (including your password) in clear text.

[m3rlin]

Yes, that is not a good ideia at all, don't be lazy and use a username and password, and for more security use ssh, its simple, don't make things harder for you, because if you use those configurations, anyone from anywhere can login in to your computer and become root.
You can do like this, add a new account, where you lock him up in the directory and use it for linux comands, read system email, or send files by ftp. Since you will be using this account for the school i think this would be enough!
Hope i cleard you mind on this matter!
Hasta!!

[jugalator]

sorry for the confusion, i don't mean anonymus telnet, I mean to telnet into my box with my user account from any other machine(which I incorrectly termed anonymus).

[eXtremist]

If you want to use a passwordless login, check out ssh-keygen on google.

[StanLin]

How about checking if telnet-server is enabled. RedHat 7.2 now disables it by default of by the firewall configuration, whichever.