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1. Thanks, man! That was really helpful! I have been looking for a telnet manual like this a long time.

2. thank you very much ….that is help full

3. Thanks alot

4. dear sir,
   i am asghar jan from pakistan.sir i am the bigenner of linux. i need ur help with supporting docoment and speacially linux commond.
   thanking you

5. Thanks!

6. what should we do if there is no telnet file in redhat linux 9… and how to install the same if its not there..

   1. u insert linux dvd ok,in command prompt #mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
      #cd /mnt
      #cd Server
      #rpm -ivh telnet*
      #cd /etc/xinetd.d/
      #ll
      #vi telnet
      disable = yes (u change that one as no,and save a file)
      #/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
      #telnet servername
      it works ok.

7. so simple… so necessary. Thanks

8. # chkconfig telnet on
   # service xinetd reload

   these both commands are useful on RHEL 4

9. thanks alot , this document is very helpful & i am able to find solution for my prlm, thanks

10. Thanks a lot! I used it for Fedora 6.0.

11. Thanks a lot!

12. Most people should be aware using telnet is *VERY* bad practice for remote administration. It’s transmission is unencrypted and is therefore very insecure. SSH is by far a more robust, offers additional features, and is by design more secure. It would be available in redhat distros via yum install sshd or debian based distro via aptitude install sshd

13. This is the single-most irresponsible piece of documentation I have ever seen. Without a long explanation, NEVER do this. If you are new enough to administrating a *nix (Linux, UNIX, BSD) machine that you aren’t familiar with your system’s package management system in almost all circumstances you are not qualified to start or maintain a service that publishes system credentials in plain text. Your system probably already has SSH and starts it by default.

14. FYI even the sshd is not installed as default.

    Yes telnet is unsecure, but boy is it handy.
    For an internal LAN in a small office, I use it.
    You can use it from any PC with having to install any package.

    this worked for me ubuntu 7.10
    sudo apt-get install telnetd
    sudo /etc/init.d/openbsd-initd restart

    FYI to enagle sshd I used
    sudo apt-get install openssh-server

15. john fraize proves my point entirely, I suppose he has reason to believe that his LAN traffic has never been analyzed, and that the Windows machine he had to re-image last week because of a virus couldn’t have possibly given anyone interested in his traffic system credentials on his Linux box, but in real-life these aren’t valid assumptions …

16. to start telnetd in my debian lenny i had to use /usr/sbin/in.telnetd , or sudo in.telnetd, after installing telnetd with apt.

17. Thanks for the guide, I got telnet installed and running on a remote server in less than 5 minutes thanks to this.

18. inredhat linux i want to telnet config

19. The above info is very useful… it helped me … so thanks for posting…

20. thank you for your useful configuration

21. how to configure more than 100 telnet ip address
    it wiil be only connecting 40or50

22. Your article was really helpful

23. lot of thanks

24. i found the aforementioned tips to be really useful…
    thank you .

25. hellow sir i am ramesh bigenner how to configure more than 60 telnet ip address
    it wiil be only connecting 40or50 please sent my mail address

26. Thanks that was really helpful

27. Hi i am not able to enable Telnet service in my PC even i Used sudo apt-get install telnetd command in Ubuntu 9.04, is anything i need to install in the system to enable Telnet in my PC

28. I got the following error while installing xinetd service

    Header V3 DSA Signature NOKEY,key ID 37017186

    Give me steps to start the telnet service on Red Hat Linux

29. i was installed windows and Red Hat in bot pc how can i mount the ntfs file in my linux os

30. To install telnet in Debian Lenny (debian 5) yo have to do:

    apt-get install telnetd

    /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart

31. I am a Ubuntu user, I am not able to use telnet, please let me know how it works.
    I am getting following error …
    #sudo apt-get install telnetd

    sudo] password for ubuntu:
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    E: Unable to locate package telnetd

32. I have the same problem that Swamy.
    E: Unable to locate package telnetd.

    I have Ubuntu Server 10.10 in a VM over Windows with the network configured in Bridge mode.

    Please any help or direction will be welcome.

    Thanks in advance.

33. this is very user full for me

34. => Click Application > Accessories > Terminal
    => sudo bash
    => apt-get install xinetd telnetd
    => After Downloading this package
    => gedit /etc/inetd.conf
    write this syntex in this file
    Syntex = telnet stram tcp nowait telnetd /usr/sbin/tcp /usr/sbinin.telnetd
    after saving this file
    => service xinetd restart
    => gedit /etc/xinetd.d/telne
    service start
    {
    disable = no
    flags = REUSE
    socket_type = stream
    wait = no
    user = root
    server = /user/sbin/in.telnetd
    log_on_failure += USERID
    }

    => service xinetd restart
    enjoy the telnet service

35. people with the same problem as Swamy and RCruz:
    you actually need to do a
    sudo apt-get install inetutils-telnetd

36. can u tell me what is problem while giving my bt login and password it is not allowing to enter giving login failure

37. thanks for your suggestion

38. sir,
    I can connect to unix sco server through pc by using telnet but i am not able to connect it through my hcl thin clients. kindly suggest how do i connect to my unix server through telnet
    from my thin clients
    thanks a lot in advance

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