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Distribution: open SUSE 11.0, Fedora 7 and Mandriva 2007
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Telnetting in Linux
I am running Mandrake Linux 10.1 version.
I just want to know the existence of telnet command in Linux. It works fine in my Windows XP side.
I did the following:
[ka@c83-250-89-254 ka]$ cat /etc/shells
/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
[ka@c83-250-89-254 ka]$ cd /bin
[ka@c83-250-89-254 bin]$ cd /bash
bash: cd: /bash: No such file or directory
[ka@c83-250-89-254 bin]$ cd /csh
bash: cd: /csh: No such file or directory
[ka@c83-250-89-254 bin]$ telnet
bash: telnet: command not found
[ka@c83-250-89-254 bin]$
It is my understanding the telnet command is in bash. I may be wrong.
The whereis command did not show a path to the executable. If it was there is would output telnet: /bin/telnet or something like that. Telnet is not installed on your system.
Sometimes you have an old system that uses telnet. We have an old, in 10 years old HP UNIX server that runs our MRP system at work. We use their telnet client to connect to it. I personually would use ssh, but most things are not under my control.
I have suggested open source prodjects before. They do not like them because they mostly offer little or no support contracts and all the admins(except one) are Windows trained only. We did put in a Squid proxy a while back though.
The branch I work at is a step child and they give little or no concern for us. It takes over a month to get a new PC, if that tells you something.
One example is, they are looking into setting up webmail. They rather spend the 10,000's of dollars on a MS program than look into stting up Squirrelmail or TWIG. Both will run on Windows and work with exchange.
Another on, we are implementing an new MRP system right now. It is over 2 years behind schedual.
Let me put it this way. Up until 4 months ago, We had no password rules. We had users that had passwords that where their first or last names. The managers name is Jim, his password was jim. That should say it all.
If I had my way, they would have ssh running on the UNIX server. But I do what I am told to do and fix the problems that arise. It is not worth the hassle, that is why I went back to college. In May I will graduate and then onto bigger and better places, hopefully a Linux place (hehe).
Sorry Gins, the files are not tarballs, they are RPMs. To install them do this.
rpm -i <name of the file>
If you only need the client, just install the client. Telnet is insecure and should not be used since it passes passwords in plain text. If you need to remotely admin a server, use ssh (OpenSSH).
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