About telnet

[Steven E. Protter]

To permanently disable the firewall,
mv /etc/rc3.d/S08iptables /etc/rc3.d/s08iptables

making it a little s preserves if for after you get attacked and want to bring it back.

bad idea. firewalls are GOOD.


rename the softlink that starts it or null out the config file. Firewalls are good though, you might just want to add a line to iptables(I don't think ipchains was in RH8)

/etc/sysconfig/iptables

-A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j okay

Same basic idea in ipchains. enable telnet.

Also make sure the service is enabled in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file

disable=no

service xinetd restart

SEP
Will work for points or money.

[Stuart Browne]

Incidentally, the easier/cleaner way to disable the firewall is to use:

chkconfig iptables off

It does all the messing around with the /etc/rc.d/* files for you.