How to telnet into redhat 7.1

[willywonka]

Has someone successfully activated the telnet server on Redhat 7.1? inetd changed to xinetd with a new style configuration file. The examples in the man page didn't work. Am I missing something?
Wayne / willywonka

 

[butchrecon]

From my experience you need to DELETE the \etc\securetty file. Then edit (vi) the \etc\ftpuser and pet a pound sign (#) in front of root. (#root)

This is my experience with redhat 6.2 and 7.0 James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[TheRAt]

I have a fresh RH 7.1 Installation... All I did to get it going was to change the

disable

line below, from yes to no... This is from

/etc/xinet.d/telnet

file... Remember to restart xinetd after the schange for this to take effect

/etc/rc.d/inet.d/xinetd restart

Suggest you look at using SSH rather than Telnet as it is more secure, and is part of most of the default installations of RH7.1... otherwise look at

http://www.openssh.org/

Adjusted telnet file below:

# 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
	disable		= no
}

AV
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