Enabling telnet

[Tim]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 11:20 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> I need to enable the following:
> telnet 127.0.0.1:9734
> (but only from my own box). Any ideas?

See if this helps you:

<http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch16_:_Telnet,_TFTP,_and_xinetd#Setting_Up_A_Telnet_Server>

Scroll down to the section:  "Basic Telnet Security".  There's
information about changing the ports, and the address it listens to.

Also look at how you do your firewalling.

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