How to start telnet service in Debian

[gauri]

Hi All,

I am new to Debian and want to start telnet service. I searched the file telnet in /etc/init.d. Its not there.
But i have the telnet package.

Thanks & Regards
Gauri Agrawal

[KidCloudWala]

Hi

You can start the service /etc/init.d/inetd start and also refer to the following link:
http://www.applieddata.net/forums/to...p?TOPIC_ID=475

[gauri]

thanks a lot but after doing that i tried to telnet to some another machine but failed.

How shoud i check whether the telnet is running or not. I know it is a deamon process but do not know how to check it.

Regards
Gauri Agrawal

[KidCloudWala]

Hi

To check if the telnet service is running or not execute the following:

ps -aux | grep telnet

also telnet localhost it will confirm whether the telnet service is running on the system or not.

Regards

[farslayer]

Forget Telnet use SSH. Telnet sends everything in clear text, including your password. telnet is bad...

SSH encrypts everything and is probably already running by default on your lin box. and if for some reason you need a ssh client on Windows look at putty.

[gauri]

thanks ssh is working. Coul you please tell me how to start sshd service.
i want to login to my client i mean from debian os to some another machine.

thanks & Regards
Gauri Agrawal

[farslayer]

ssh <hostname_or_ip_address>

or if you want to specify what name to use when you login to another machine...

ssh -l login_name <hostname_or_ip_address>


easy....

[gauri]

hi,

thansk for prompt reply so easy question but i have already tried that it is saying connection refused. i am a new bie to debian/linux.

While i am able to connect this debian server from my laptop using putty.
I am able to do ssh localhost. but i am unable to do

ssh remote...

so googled and found that i need sshd daemon running on my debian server but i dont know how to strat it....


thanks & Regards
Gauri Agrawal

[farslayer]

sudo apt-get install ssh openssh-server

It should download and install ssh and openssh-server, generate the keys for encryption, add the sshd server to the startup section on your linux box so it will start automaticallly on boot, and then start the service automaticaly..

you should be able to ssh to your debian box at this point as a user..



root is isually denied ssh access by default