how to set up telnet

[g0rdog]

Is there some reason why every forum I have gone to concerning how to set up telnet, no one will answer the question presented but rather will go on and on about SSH? If I wanted to set up SSH, I wouldn't be searching for info about telnet! Please either respond to the topic or don't clutter the forums with off topic posts!

[Roxoff]

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're asking of us. Do you want help withh telnet, or are you here to tell us off for directing you to SSH on another forum?

If you want help with setting up telnet, then perhaps you could tell us what you have done so far?

[MikeTbob]

Is there some reason why every forum I have gone to concerning how to set up telnet, no one will answer the question presented but rather will go on and on about SSH? If I wanted to set up SSH, I wouldn't be searching for info about telnet! Please either respond to the topic or don't clutter the forums with off topic posts!

To add to what Roxoff said, I think the reason they do that is because Telnet=old unsecure whereas SSH=better than Telnet and more Secure

[g0rdog]

Sorry about my rant. I'm a newbie and I'm trying to get the telnet service to work on DEb-5. I've installed the telnetd pkg. When I enter ps -aux | grep telnet, I get nothing and I do not have an /etc/init.d/inetd file. I have made an entry for telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf and restarted the daemon. I am still unable to telnet to localhost. Any Ideas? 1) I'm trying to configure this as a learning exercise, not necessarily as the final config. 2) I will config telnet only for the internalnetwork side of the firewall.

[MikeTbob]

I can't really help with your problem because I don't have much experience with SSH or Telnet. You say this is part of a "learning exercise" and that's all fine. If this is school work just keep in mind that we do have a no home/school work rule. You can ask for direction and guidance but we cannot provide you the actual answers.

[g0rdog]

No, it's not school work. I'm just trying to learn linux one peice at a time.

[elija]

For most purposes SSH is way better than telnet, especially if you are going to be managing a server remotely. Now that's out of the way -_= where I find telnet useful is checking that a specific service is available.

telnet listens on port 23 by default, but you can telnet into any port by using the form telnet host-or-ip port which is why I find it useful in case anyone is wondering.

g0rdog, what happens if you run the command

/etc/init.d/telnetd start

as root?

[g0rdog]

I do not have a telnetd in my /etc/init.d directory. The response is: commnd not found. I also do not have an inetd in /etc/init.d, however when I issue an inetd command it does seem to restart inetd.

[MikeTbob]

It's probably not installed yet. I don't think many distros install it by default. Like we talked about, it's old and I guess not many people use it. Check for it in your package manager.

[g0rdog]

I again installed the pkg, it just tells me that the newest pkg is already installed.
I edited my inetd.config manually, since the telnetd was not there. for the server_path I entered /usr/sbin/in.telnetd (I got this entry from a post somewhere). Is this the correct server_path?
I tried running in.telnetd from /usr/sbin and got the reply:
socket operation on non-socket.