Topic: open port for telnet

[Pat Erler]

hi!

i need to open up tcp port 20000 to allow a specific program to connect to the e-smith server.

i run the approriate ipchains command (/sbin/ipchains --append input -p tcp -s 0/0 20000 -d 192.168.0.253 20000 -j ACCEPT) but the server is still refusing telnet connections from other computers (when i try it locally everything is fine).

is there another mechanism that prevents telneting into the box on port 20000?


PAT

[Alex Wallace]

you need to modify the file /etc/passwd and change the end of the line for the user you want to grant telnet access to from ssh to bash (or your favorite shell) to be able to telnet or ssh regular (non root or admin) users...