Re: Telnet disabled by default

[teg redhat com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)]

"Clarence Donath" <donath hks com> writes:

> I just installed RH7.1 selecting no firewall.  Network access from the machine
> is fine, but I cannot telnet to it at all.

Telnet is bad, and you shouldn't use it - use ssh instead.

>  This is the first time I've ever installed Linux and have not been
>  able to telnet right away.  You would think
> that selecting no firewall would allow telnet, ftp and other services like
> you've always been able to.  Why has this changed??

They're also off by default - security in the default configuration is
very important. You were only asked if you wanted a firewall, not if
you wanted these services active.

To turn it on (don't! Use ssh - it's more secure and more
userfriendly), do "chkconfig telnet on" and "service xinetd reload" 

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.