Unable to telnet (non-ssh) as root

anilgurwara · March 11, 2009, 1:31am

Hi forum,

I face a strange issue. I'm able to telnet as root with ssh.
But I'm not able to telnet (non-ssh) as root to my Suse 10 machine.

Can someone please point to significant files where I need to make changes for Suse 10 machine and resolve this issue.

Thanks in advance.

salil2012 · March 18, 2009, 2:25am

Can you pls show me the command which you are trying and has not worked? or any sample of such command.

Corona688 · March 20, 2009, 3:47pm

logging into root over telnet sends your root password over the network as plaintext. For this reason most servers don't have telnet running these days.