Telnet to Linux Box

[Rajendran_1]

Dear Friends,

I first ask you all sorry for asking such a silly question, as u are an expert !!But I am new to Linux... Can any one tell me "How to enable telnet services to a Linux Box so that i can control it from anywhere in my LAN.. Help me out..

[Thierry Baillon · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1) xinetd is active:

root@foo# ps -edf | grep xinetd
gives you a line like:
root 345 1 0 Mar 15 ? 00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive ... etc.

2) check for a file named:
/etc/xinetd.d/telnet

3) edit this file.

4) The file look like:

service telnet
{
type = INTERNAL
id = echo-stream
socket_type = stream
...etc.
disable = yes
}

5) change the disable = yes to a disable = no

6) type :

# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

and this should do.

Hope it helps.

Regards,
Thierry BAILLON

[Rajendran_1]

Thank you my dear friend,


It worked.... Here's your points..

Raj

[Samuel Mathew]

I have a question to the experts. I have telnet enabled and the firewall opened up. Now I get the login screen when I try to telnet from my laptop to the Linux box. But if I enter root and its password, it is not accepted from the telnet screen. The same password is valid on the linux box itself.
What is the secret of this?
Can somebody help me with this?
Sam

[Stuart Browne]

Most modern Linux distributions deny the ability for the 'root' user to sign in over a network connection, requiring you to sign in as a non-priveledged user, then using 'su' to get priviledged access.

If you really want to, you can change this behaviour (look at /etc/pam.d/telnet, and the 'securetty' line), but I'd highly suggest leaving it as it is.

[Balaji N]

samuel,

i have answered ur question in ur post.

and to the OP, please use ssh instead of telnet if u are on a public lan or if ur data security is important.

-balaji