telnet on red hat 9, problems

Hello people

I'm quite new to Linux.
I've got a problem with Red Hat 9. I've installed the Workstation version.
Now, I'm having a problem with remote accessing the machine via telnet.
the telnet daemon is not running. I've already installed the package with
the telnet daemon.
After that  I've configured the /etc/xinetd.conf as follows:


service telnet
{
      disable           = no
      socket_type       = stream
      wait              = no
      nice              = 10
      user              = root
      server                  = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
      rlimit_as         = 8M
      rlimit_cpu        = 20
}

After that, I restarted xinetd, gave a kill -HUP <xinetd pid>, even
rebooted the machine, but telnet refuses to start.
What am I doing wrong here ?
I know that you all will advise to use ssh, but I want telnet for now.

Best regards,

Andy Kannberg
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