Newbie School: how to configure telnet in Linux

Article Title: newbie School: Linux operating system telnet configuration method. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Including desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, open source, and other basic categories. This is a recommended learning method for new users. Linux Remote Management should be safer with SSH, it is easier to manage. Now all the professional Linux administrators will use SSH whenever possible. The following method is the Telnet configuration. After all, this is a method and the speed is very good.

1. Install the telnet-server software package.

2. Set telnet-server startup

The telnet server is not run as an independent server, but is controlled by the xinetd program. The STARTUP configuration file is/etc/xinetd. d/telnet. By default, the xinetd program does not start the service. You can see that telnet is disabled in chkconfig -- list./etc/xinetd. in d/telnet, disable = yes can be used to start the telnet server in the following way:

1) chkconfig telnet on // This command modifies the configuration of/etc/xinetd. d/telnet and sets disable = no

2) service xinetd restart

Run chkconfig -- list again to see that the telnet server has been started.

Note: Modify disable = no in the/etc/xinetd. d/telnet file.