Allowing telnet connection

[Jerry Winegarden]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Gregory Woodbury wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:17:35PM -0500, 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.
> >  
> > Barry
> 
> You need to turn on the telnet server in xinetd.d
> 
> 	chkconfig telnet on

Alternatively, you can edit the correct configuration text file
(one of the strengths of Linux).  In this case, it is:

/etc/xinetd.d/telnet

By default, telnet service (controlled by tcpwrappers, thus the 
file in xinetd.d) is turned OFF.  This is seen by the line
in this file:

	disable = yes

To ENABLE telnet, you then comment out this line by simply inserting a # 
sign at the start of the line.   This is exactly what the above 
chkconfig command does for you.





> 
> You say you've added sites to hosts.allow and adjusted the firewall.
> This should finish off turning telnet on.
> 
> 

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