If you're seeing "telnetd: Authorization failed." then the short answer is
to edit inetd.conf and remove the "-a valid" after telnetd. I believe "-a
valid" turns on an authorization feature (SRA?) that the telnet NetBSD 3.0
client can provide, but that other clients (NetBSD 1.6, PuTTY on a Redmond
OS, etc.) can't.

I haven't read much about SRA, but I had to turn it off on my new 3.0
machine. It is strange that your inetd.conf got overwritten.

Jason M.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@NetBSD.org]On
> Behalf Of Ignatios Souvatzis
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:05 AM
> To: Paul (NCC/CS).; port-i386@NetBSD.org; paul500@fastmail.fm
> Subject: telnet crisis (Was: Re: help please mail crisis !!!)
>
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:39:25PM +1000, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:
>
> > PS telnet is also refusing connections despite   !  :
> > su# grep telnet inetd.conf
> > telnet          stream  tcp     nowait  root
> /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd -a valid
> > #telnet         stream  tcp6    nowait  root
> /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd -a valid
>
> Did you enable inetd in rc.conf? If not, add
>
> inetd=YES
>
> in /etc/rc.conf
>
> then
>
> /etc/rc.d/inetd start
>
> Regards,
> 	-is