[Techtalk] Installing and configuring Telnet Server

[Tricia Bowen]

check to see if you have the telnet service running:

$ more /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
#       unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
        flags           = REUSE
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
        log_on_failure  += USERID
}

--Tricia

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Shearer, Laura wrote:

|I'm fairly new to UNIX, but learning my way around. So I apologize if
|this is a basic question.
|
|I have a Red Hat 7.2 box that I'm trying to get Telnet Services running
|on.
|
|I installed telnet-server-0.17.20.i386.rpm without any obvious problems.
|
|
|I also installed xinetd-2.3.3-1.i386.rpm, seeing as it would not let
|install the telnet server without this being installed.
|
|Are there any configuration changes that need to be made before the
|telnet server will start accepting connections. All I want to be able to
|do is telnet to the linux box within our internal network and as the way
|things are now, it's not accepting telnet connections.
|
|Any insight would be appreciated.
|Laura
|
|
|

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