[gounix]

hi all,

i'm new to linux, so please bear with me.

I have just installed sles 10 on a dell poweredge 2900. i need to be able to telnet into this box.

when trying to telnet, i get the following message:

/usr/lib/mit/sbin/login.krb5 , no such file or directory.

i have a specific need to use telnet, so if you can't provide a solution to this problem, please don't reply and tell me to use ssh or some other more secure program.

i am aware of the inherent security issues with telnet.

thanks

[javilin93]

Hello
check if the krb5-server package is installed

[gounix]

thanks for your response.

i'm not sure how to check to see if that package is installed and if it is not, i certainly don't know how to install it.

i have checked the services under xinetd and there is no service named krb5-service shown.

as i said i am very new to linux and do not understand a lot of the terminology yet.

[gogalthorp]

Go to Yast-Software-Software Management and do a search. If it is not installed select to install it.

It really is pretty simple once you know where to go.

[gounix]

thanks. it was pretty easy once i realized that i needed to install it from the installation cd's.

i found it on cd 3 and installed it and now i have the login.krb5 file.

however, when i try telnet <ip address> i get a new message:

"could not open connection to host, on port 23: connect failed".

i think i am close.

[gogalthorp]

Did you open the port in the firewall??

[gounix]

the firewall on the linux box is disabled. i tried to use telnet localhost and got the same message.

i don't have a firewall on my pc.

not being a network person, it does seem to me that some service may not be running. that is just a guess.

again, thanks for your help. i really appreciate it.

[HROAdmin26]

Do you have a telnet server installed? (The missing "i" to the left means it's not installed in the example below.)

zypper se telnet
Restoring system sources...
Parsing metadata for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1...
S | Catalog | Type | Name | Version | Arch
--+-------------------------------------+---------+-----------------+------------+-------
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 | package | perl-Net-Telnet | 3.03-195.2 | x86_64
i | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 | package | telnet | 1.2-14.4 | x86_64
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 | package | telnet-server | 1.2-14.4 | x86_64

If installed, is xinetd listening for port 23 connections?

chkconfig -l | grep telnet

[gounix]

the chkconfig command shows 2 items
ktelnet off
telnet off

in the network services screen under xinetd, i don't see ktelnet listed but i do have 2 listings for telnet,

both of the telnet listings have a - (dash) in the status column. if i try to enable them, i get a popup message that says: Package telnet-server was successfully installed on one of them and the message: Package krb5-apps-server was successfully installed on the other one.

thanks for you help!

[HROAdmin26]

How are you trying to "enable" them?

You need xinetd "on" and "telnet" on.

chkconfig -s xinetd on

chkconfig -s telnet on

Then check them:

chkconfig -l

And see if port 23 is open:

netstat -anp | grep 23