Telnet for a particular user on 11.23-urgent help required

[Trng]

Hi Gurus,

i have 11.23 ia 64 machine,many users are configured.now one ftp user "test" requires telnet access also.how to grant/configure telnet access for users ??is it possible to configure telnet for user basis ??.this user should be able from anywhere from the network (not host specific).

rgds
skr

[SKR_1]

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1223264321096+28353475&threadId=1235319

Check the above thread, you will get the solution.

Thanks

SKR

[Ivan Krastev]

Comment out telnet entry in /etc/inetd.conf file and reload inetd daemon: inetd -c

After that you can restrict users per hosts/networks via /var/adm/inetd.sec file.

regards,
ivan

[Sandeep_Chaudhary]

make sure that telnet is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf

suxde900 # cat /etc/inetd.conf|grep -i telnet
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd
sandchau as root@suxde900 [/root]
suxde900 #

check shell entry for ftp user. As per practise it is /bin/false . change it to normal shell like csh, ksh or sh.

[Trng]

HI,

My requirement is i have a user called "test: which is using the /bin/false having only ftp access.now i want to give telnet access for this user from any machine within the network.telnet is enable in inetd.conf .how to grant telnet access to this ftp user ?if i change the shell /bin/false to someother shell like /sbin/sh etc ?/

reghards
sureshkumar

[Ninad_1]

Hi,

It seems that your test user was configured to disallow shell usage - thus using /bin/false.
Now if you need to allow test to telnet, then you need to modify the shell for the user to /usr/bin/ksh or /usr/bin/csh whichever shell you want to use for the user.
You can use SAM or use command line
usermod -s /usr/bin/ksh test

Regards,
Ninad

[Laurent Menase]

you can also use restricted shell,

rsh, rksh. whith those shell, a user can't use cd , and can only execute commands which are in its path, which it can't redefine of course.

Then you will be able to make a restricted env with only the command you need.
- ls for instance if you want that ftpd be able to run ls.