Robert Young wrote: > Lots of disinformation going on in this thread. > The telnet service is normally provided under the control of the inetd > super-daemon. It is fully documented in the manual page for inetd. > The usual configuration file for inetd is /etc/inetd.conf > It is normal to find the telnet line in the above file commented out by > default as supplied by the distribution as the telnet service is regarded as > insecure and should not be used over a public network. However, for use within > a private network it is simple to enable telnet; just remove the comment > symbol from the obviously relevant line in inetd.conf, and then restart inetd.
That's not been my experience. /etc/inetd.conf is a global config file for inetd, and the last line in it is to include /etc/inetd.d or something, and that directory contains files for all the servers it controls. Putting it all in the same file would work, I believe, but that's certainly not how it's always done. Also, at least in Gentoo, the telnet client and server are in a package called netkit-telnetd, which is very separate from (x)inetd. Then again, I've been away from Redhat for a while, and I can't be sure about how they do things compared to Gentoo. All I do know is that my original response was correct as far as I remembered Redhat, and is certainly correct for Gentoo. Chad Martin ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
