RE: How do I enable Telnet??

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Nugent [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:36 AM
To: Redhat 7. 2 Enigma Mailing List
Subject: Re: How do I enable Telnet?? 


On Tue Mar 11 2003 at 09:21, "Blessing Kamutande" wrote:

> I thought /etc/services was the problem and again the machine does not have the inetd.conf.

xinetd is an enhanced replacement for inetd.  It's main configuration
file is /etc/xinetd.conf which includes a directory (/etc/xinetd.d/)
which contains one configuration file per service.

> Is that normal???

Yes.

> one more question how do I check what port is open e.g. the telnet port

	netstat -plutn

(the -n is optional, "use numbers instead of names").

or:

	lsof -i

> thanks for the replies

Have fun!  Linux rocks...

> blessing

Cheers
Tony

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I think someone already mentioned this on the thread, and I'm not sure if you responded with reasons why you have chosen telnet.  But, you really should think about using ssh.  If it is all new to you then why not start out using the "better" way to do things.  I'm pretty new to linux myself, and I did not realize the benefit of ssh until I got myself a packet sniffer and actually looked at the traffic.  Sure enough, I saw my telnet login password when reviewing my sniffer logs.  It was encrypted with ssh.  SSH is really easy to set up.
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.53b/htmldoc/

Just advice from someone about two days older in Linux than you are.