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From: Steve Bernacki Jr <steve@zip1.ziplink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with KEYINIT and SKEY : Cannot telnet from the Internet
Date: 16 May 1997 17:16:47 GMT
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Go into your /etc directory and remove the files skeykeys and skey.access;
this will effectively disable s/key.  (It's a good idea to rename these
files to something different rather than just deleting them.)

-S

François DOMMANGET <fdm@tsr.be> wrote:
: Hello,

: I am using FreeBSD 2.2.1.

: As I intend to access this host from the Internet via telnet sessions,
: I added ttyp0, ... as 'network secure' in /etc/ttys (I know that it is
: not
: recommended for security reasons, but ...).

: I added login names: user1 and user2.
: As user2, I used keyinit and key to generate a list of keys for that
: login
: name only..

: But after that, I cannot access user1 anymore from the Internet. It says

: 'Login incorrect'. When I use that login name and the pw from the
: console however, I can login without trouble.

: Can someone tell me how to restore the machine so that all logins from
: the Internet behave like a login on the console.

: Thanks


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