Installing telnet

[thatishari]

Hi,

Could some body help me in installing the telnet packages by providing me the exact link which contains the required details and under which file system it has to be installed...

regards,
Hari...

[Roxoff]

So what you're asking for is a link to the .exe file containing telnet and detailed instructions for how to install it?

You could do this on your RedHat or Fedora system and use the package manager, something like 'yum install telnet' from the root command prompt would do it. Or look in your package manager's gui.

[thatishari]

Hi,

Could somebody help me in enabling the telnet service. I am very new to the unix field.

Also is there any special packages need to be installed for that?, if so can u pls mention that also.

by,
Hari...

willing to become a great unix admin(not joke)...

[bigtomrodney]

Telnet is usually disabled - and avoided - because of its inherent lack of security. It passes all information unencrypted over the network and can be read as plain text with the help of Wireshark or other similar network tools.

Can I ask what the requirement for telnet is? If it is to logon remotely on the command line I would suggest using ssh which is likely enabled by default on your system. ssh is considered the "right way" to things and has completely eclipsed telnet in modern usage.

[blinky]

As bigtomrodney say's you probably want to use ssh.

But if that's not the case then you need to install the telnet-sever and xinetd packages.

Then edit /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and change "disable = yes" to "disable = no"
restart the xinetd service and it should be there.

Don't use for remotely (from the internet) to access your machine, block the telnet port ideally, use ssh for remote access from internet. For internal firewalled network telnet is ok.

Does any one know how to get the the host prompt in ssh client like you can in telnet (eg Ctrl+] )