Telnet to OSx 10.4 machine not working

[bhogaj31]

Hi all,

I have a little problem on any Mac OSx 10.4 (Tiger) machines I have built.

For some strange reason I am unable to telnet to them, which I need to do because of the geographical locations of alot of my users machines.

I also have OSx machines running up 10.3.8, which I CAN telnet to with no problem, telnetd is running on these machines.

On the 10.4 machines via a terminal session, I have checked

% ps -ax | more

to see if telnetd is running and it is not.

I can see a man page for telnetd and if I type -

% which telnetd

I found

/usr/libexec/telnetd

I have checked in /etc/inetd.conf to see if there is a comment in front of the line that says telnet and there is not, so it should be starting telnetd as a process when the machine boots up, but it doesn't.

I tried starting telnetd manually by typing -

% sudo telnetd -debug (as in the man page)

but the cursor just goes down one line and I don't get a prompt, it just hangs there as if it is trying to do something but just hangs between prompts for about an hour now.

What am I doing wrong? Any help much appreciated.

 

[ObviousTroll]

Dumb question - why are you using telnet!?! are you mad?!? Are you hoping someone will hack into your machines?

What's wrong with SSH? Not only is it secure, you can turn it on through the preferences panel.