[Techtalk] Installing and configuring Telnet Server

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:44:18AM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Tricia Bowen thought:
> 
> 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
> }

And a quick "chkconfig --list" should show "telnet on" in the list.  If it
shows "telnet off" do a "chkconfig telnet on" to turn it on for future
use.

conor
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