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Old 12-14-2012, 10:10 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by xor_ View Post
FWIW, I tried something similar a couple of days ago, with the same result.

The wiki page method of enabling telnet works, though. But, clearly, having a telnet server running without a root password isn't a winning long-term proposition. So I generated a password hash with mkpasswd and inserted it into /etc/passwd. (No passwd program on the box).
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand: are you saying that telnet didn't work, but then you added a password and it started to work? (I'm just slightly confused by the "long term" part).

My only other linux device at home is my router, let's see if it has mkpasswd...

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