On Tue, 1 May 2001, Clarence Donath wrote:
> I just installed RH7.1 selecting no firewall. Network access from the machine
> is fine, but I cannot telnet to it at all. This is the first time I've ever
> installed Linux and have not been able to telnet right away. You would think
> that selecting no firewall would allow telnet, ftp and other services like
> you've always been able to. Why has this changed??
Consensus among systems administrators nowadays is that telnet is
unnecessary and a security liability. SSH, which is probably already
installed, performs every function that telnet can, as well as providing
the functionality comprable to rsh and rexec.
> I try to start the telnet service from linuxconf, but it will not start. What
> is up with this? What do I need to do to get it to work?
You might need to install the telnet-server package, and start
xinetd, though you are much better off using SSH in the long haul.
thornton
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