Re: Telnet login not allowed

["Ian D. Leroux" <idleroux%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

[Apologies to Sig. Mottola, who will get this twice, but I forgot to CC
the list the first time]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013, at 9:03, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> if I "telnet localhost" it works, thus the daemon is running, if I 
> telent from the outisde, I get an authentication error (telnetd: 
> Authorization failed) before even trying to input my password.
> 
> In authlog I see an inbound connection but no errors/warnings.
> 
> My inetd.conf line is:
> l
> telnet          stream  tcp     nowait  root /usr/libexec/telnetd    
> telnetd -a valid

What's in /etc/pam.d/telnetd and /etc/pam.d/login ?

-- IDL