Me again....how do I set up telnet in Linux?

[iggystar]

I kinda just thought Telnet would work out of the box but it's not.

I did a vanilla install of Red Hat 7.1 Linux with my box as a server. The only thing I can think of is that during the install it asked me what kinda of security I wanted on the system. The default was Medium and I just left it there.

I took at look at IPTABLES and IPCHAINS as well as the GUI firewall configurator that Xwindows has and I dont see anything in there at all so I'm not sure if the medium securuty thing is my problem.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
You guys rock.

 

[d3funct]

As root type "setup" go to the "firewall configuration" and you can leave the level at medium as you have it now, but go to "customize" and there is a list of services you can tell the firewall to allow. Allow what you want to be able to COME IN to your box, I have DHCP, SSH, TELNET and MAIL chosen, but if your box is not a DHCP client or server no need to use that, and if you don't get mail delivered to your local box no need to use that. If you're not serving web pages no need for

http://WWW and

if you're not serving FTP no need for that. Hope it helps. d3funct
zimmer.jon@cfwy.com
The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.

 

[iggystar]

That really helps.
You rock!