On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:13 +0000, Chris Norman wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to get a telnet server running on my machine. I already > have SSh, I have installed telnet-server, and started xinetd. What else > do I have to do? I would uninstall telnet - it is horribly insecure. As root, do: chkconfig telnet on service xinetd restart The first one is either telnet or telnetd, I can't remember. I would not use telnet on a production system so I don't have it installed to check. Any protocol which passes passwords in plain text is a Bad Thing (TM). Anyway, chkconfig will configure /etc/xinetd.d/telnet correctly and restart xinetd. The second one is optional, as chkconfig is supposed to restart xinetd whenever a managed service is activated. However, I have seen that not happen, so I usually manually restart xinetd. Hope this is helpful. Thomas
