Telnet into RedHat 8 Server???

[BMW]

All,

By default RedHat 8 doesn't allow unsecured telnet client into it. I am on a NT4 workstation, I would like to telnet into my RedHat 8 box. If the security is not an issue, how can I allow the unsecured connection? Must be a file somewhere needs to be edited?

Thanks,
BMW

 

[sleipnir214]

Not recommended, and not necessary.

There are free ssh clients for Win32. Putty is one:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

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[paleogryph]

Make sure ssh is installed on RH. Look in /etc/init.d for sshd. You can always dl and install OpenSSH from

http://www.openssh.org:

You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL.

Zlib:

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

OpenSSL 0.9.6 or greater:

http://www.openssl.org/

RH 8 should have those, depending on what packages you installed.




>Think for yourself<
...or someone else will do it for you.

 

[LinuAIX]

If you truly trust your network, ie a home network of 3 computers, you can use the telnet daemon by setting it up in /etc/inetd.conf. While ssh is great, it really is not always necessary!

 

[dev23]

hi,
there are free ssh clients like puttytel on

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

or you can telnet to redhat 8.0 box through command prompt of windows NT workstation.But first make changes to your
/etc/xinetd.d/telnet file.
Just change the &quot;disable=yes&quot; option in it to &quot;disable=no&quot;
and restart your xinetd service using the command
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart.

Also redhat does not allow root login through telnet due to the file /etc/securetty.You can telnet as normal user and the switch user to root or move the file /etc/securetty from its location to allow root login through telnet.
Bye.