Hello all -
I am using SUSE V10. I am trying to set up telnet server. I used YaST to install it and then rebooted.

After that I was unsure what to do and tried the following:

1. I changed /etc/hosts.allow by removing the # from the lines following the "Example 2" area that allows access from local net.

2. "ps -ef | grep -i telent" returned no PID's for telnet.

3. Opened a term window and tried telnet 192.168.1.103 and got "telnet:... Conection Refused."

Can anyone point out what I am missing?

Thanks,
SteveLR

Hi, I'm familiar only with Slackware, so not sure if this will help, but check if there is an inetd.conf file in the /etc directory. If SuSE uses inetd to manage some network services, you might find that the telnet service is commented in the inetd.conf file. Uncomment it and restart inetd.

Hope this helps!

Have you installed the telnet daemon?

Have you allowed connections on Port 23 (From Memory) through your machine's firewall?

You will need to have telnetd listening to port 23 in order to telnet into the machine, and your firewall must allow connections to port 23.

On a side note, why telnet? SSH is basically a secure version of telnet, and also provides some other functions such as sftp and scp. Telnet is very insecure, because data (including password) is sent unencrypted.

I hope this helps
--Ian

I appreciate the replys. I found somthing searching with google and tried it and it worked for me.

-I ran: "chkconfig telnet on"

-In YaST also set xinetd for run lvls 3 and 5

I had installed telnet, but I did not do anything with the firewall, to be honest I am not sure if a firewall is even installed as I am new to SUSE Linux (I use HPUX at work)

Your point is well taken on the security of telnet and I do plan on checking out SSH later on - just trying to get a few things running that I have used at work so I can learn more. Next I want to put on MySQL and get things working with it and ASP using Apache.