I am no xinetd guru, but if I were to guess I'd say there's 
something wrong with the "user=nobody" line. If the telnet 
daemon starts as nobody, it won't be able to gain the 
permissions of the user that wants to login.

$ ls -l /usr/lib/telnetlogin
-rwsr-xr--    1 root     telnetd      5736 Apr  6  2002 /usr/
lib/telnetlogin

It looks like the user should be someone in the telnetd group. 
Try "user=telnetd", and make sure that the user telnetd is in 
the telnetd group.

	$ adduser telnetd telnetd

Cheers,
Shaun


On Sat June 26, 2004 19h07, Scott wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I'm having a hard time with telnet on my debian woody box. 
> Network is fine, I can SSh to the box but I have a need to be
> able to turn on telnet when necessary.  I can't get it to
> work to save me.  I use xinetd, and I have telnet configured
> in it's .conf as follows:
>
> service telnet
> {
>         flags       = NAMEINARGS
>         socket_type = stream
>         protocol    = tcp
>         wait        = no
>         user        = nobody
>         server      = /usr/sbin/tcpd
>         server_args = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
>         disable     = no
> }
>
> I have verified the programs listed in xinetd.conf above are
> in the path.  I see an error in syslog that says:
>
> in.telnetd[435]: connect from 10.10.10.30
> telnetd[436]: /usr/lib/telnetlogin: Permission denied
>
> I searched google and a post suggested a screwed up
> telnetlogin, so I tried running it at the command prompt.  No
> core dump as others had, mine just logs in like it's supposed
> to.
>
> The source telnet IP's are in /etc/hosts.allow, and not in
> .deny, just like the ssh entries and again, ssh is working
> from the same source IP's.
>
> I've fiddled with xinetd.conf and bounced it using kill -USR2
> [pid].  I see it reload in the syslog, no errors.
>
> Can someone help me get telnet working?  I don' tknow what
> else to try.
>
> Thanks for the time to help,
> Scott


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