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sergsk
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Aug 11, 2017

Misleading SSH passwd message in telnet session. How to get telnet back?

Hi everyone,

 

I've opened telnet session through debug.htm and fisrt thing a saw was this message:

=== IMPORTANT ============================
Use 'passwd' to set your login password
this will disable telnet and enable SSH
------------------------------------------

 

Naturally, I wanted to switch to SSH, so I had the password configured. But no SSH, and Telnet is not working anymore. :-/

 

I had my doubts, and should have kept the original session active until SSH access confirmed, but didn't (sigh...)

 

I suppose resetting the system should help, but is there any other, less time consuming way?

 

Thanks,

 

 

Troubleshooting

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    kochin
    Apprentice
    Dec 07, 2017

    Thank you for the heads-up.

     

    I encountered the same message when I telneted into my Orbi. Just like you, my immediate reaction was to set a password and switch to SSH. Fortunately I did a search first on the Internet and found your post. So instead I used the 'find' command to see if any often used sshd exists on the Orbi. It turned out nothing, so I must say there is a very good possibility Orbi doesn't even have an sshd.

     

    To anyone considering to set a password and enable SSH, DON'T DO IT.