Re: Telnet disabled by default

[Thornton Prime <thornton yoyoweb com>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Clarence Donath wrote:

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

Consensus among systems administrators nowadays is that telnet is
unnecessary and a security liability. SSH, which is probably already
installed, performs every function that telnet can, as well as providing
the functionality comprable to rsh and rexec.

> I try to start the telnet service from linuxconf, but it will not start.  What
> is up with this?  What do I need to do to get it to work?

You might need to install the telnet-server package, and start
xinetd, though you are much better off using SSH in the long haul.

thornton