Peter, Brock's already answered the question you asked, but I still need to say this: Do _not_ turn on telnet. Ever. Period. Use Secure SHell (SSH) instead. Every single bit of telnet traffic goes over the network in the clear: userids, passwords, file contents, you name it. SSH encrypts all that, and is just as easy to use. It actually provides you even more functionality than telnet does (it can also act like rsh, for example), and in a secure manner.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Peter Flass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: setting up telnet Thanks for the pointer to "hup". Another newbie question: I'm trying to set up the telnet service, and can't quite seem to get it all together. I installed the telnetd rpm (RHL 7.2), and played with the firewall and config files. Xinetd doesn't want to start the telnet server whan I try to connect. If I start 'in.telnetd' manually I can successfully telnet into the system *once*; when I Ctrl-D telnetd drops. What am I missing, or, better yet, is there a cookbook for this stuff? I have the Redhat docs, but they seem to take a lot for granted. Thanks.
