Telnet on Debian 3.0

[Bindumadhava.V]

Hello,

What is the utility from which we can enable the telnet and other networking stuffs...?

How to go about in installing extra packages after the basic installation...?

Because eventhough the system is on the network and able to ping.. but not able to telnet or ftp from other server...

The version is Debian 3.0.

Please suggest..

Thanks & Regards
Bindumadhava.

[Heiner E. Lennackers · Accepted solution]

Hi,

for security reason, the in.telnetd is not installed with the base system on debain woody.
You can install it with "apt-get install telnetd".
And you may take a look at /etc/securetty to allow root logins over the net.
Also you can install a ftp server.

On debain you have by default three programs to maintain your installed software packages:
dselect : a curses based frontend to the other programs
dpkg : maintain software, like installing packages, purging , updateing etc.
apt-get: to install software directly from the media or the net and to maintain it

If you need a specific program/tool you can look at http://search.debian.org to find the appropriate package for it.

Heiner

[Steven E. Protter]

If you installed the telnet server at all, here are the steps to activate it.

There is a directory(RH, I admit) called

/etc/xinetd.d


There should be a statement indicating the directory in your release in the file /etc/xinetd.conf or /etc/inetd.conf

It will say something like

include /etc/xinetd.d

cd there.

There should be a file called telent

Here is what MINE says.

[root@jerusalem xinetd.d]# more telnet
# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
disable = no
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
}


Note disable = no, that means its on. Quite intuitive don't you think? The future of Unix.

If disable is set to yes, change it to no and then restart the inetd deamon

xinetd -c or

service xinetd restart

This could solve your issue. If so throw a point or two my way.

have a pleasant weekend.

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