Allowing telnet connection

[Mike Burger]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Barry Bourdage wrote:

> I am trying to lean more about the local security on a machine. I have a new install, I can SSH to the box, but not telnet. I have added my ip range in the allow file, I have turned off the firewall option. What else am I missing to allow telnet from a local network.

First, make sure that you have the telnet server package installed:

rpm -q telnet-server

If it comes back with "telnet-server-xxx" where xxx is some sort of 
version info, then you'll run:

/sbin/chkconfig telnet on

to turn the service on.

As a precaution, once you've used the chkconfig line, above, you can:

/sbin/service xinetd restart

to make sure that xinetd reloads with the telnet server available.
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