Bug 118180

Summary:	unable to toggle on telnet using yast2-xinetd
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Martin Mrazik <mmrazik>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Lukas Ocilka <locilka>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	97395
Attachments:	y2logs

Description Martin Mrazik 2005-09-21 07:45:24 UTC

I need to enable telnet. In the "Network Service Configuration (xinetd)" window
of yast2 there are two telnet daemons I can choose from - /usr/sbin/telnetd and
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd. I want to toggle on the first one (/usr/sbin/telnetd).

Now a dialog box apppears saying me "These packages need to be installed:" and
there is empty list of packages that should be installed. Click
"Continue"..."Reading package information"...."Package was not installed. The
service cannot be edited."

/usr/sbin/in.telnetd works fine.

y2logs attached.

Comment 1 Martin Mrazik 2005-09-21 07:45:51 UTC

Created attachment 50518 [details]
y2logs

Comment 2 Michael Gross 2005-09-21 10:40:34 UTC

This sounds like a bug. Reassigned.

I think you're quite aware that telnet is really a large security-hole and you
should use SSH instead ;) Don't get me wrong but I had to mention this... if not
for you but for all the others.

Comment 3 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-21 10:44:07 UTC

This part of source code is a crap, just inspecting another bug around...

Comment 4 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-22 08:35:59 UTC

Hmm, that had been very strange util I've found what was wrong: yast2-inetd
generates the default config file by hand and that one was too old. New one has
been generated.