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Originally Posted by WindsorKnot
Hi fellas - pretty new to Linux over here; I have an ASUS Eee netbook running Ubuntu 14.04. I would like to learn a little C programming in my downtime and the devshed IDE and CodeBlocks both hurt my eyes; meanwhile the netbook's keyboardette hurts my hands. :/
So I want to configure Telnet service on the netbook so I can use the vi editor and the gcc compiler from my physically-comfier HP laptop. (Telnet's security deficiencies are a non-issue because this is a self-contained three-node network in my home; it does not connect to the Internet.)
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Getting the telnet service up and running is the challenge. I'm not sure why, if what I wanted to learn is C, I'd want to spend more than about 15 minutes trying to get it up and running when running ssh-keygen and moving a key and editing a file or two would have you connected and editing C sources. Frankly, my brain has dumped much of what it knew about telnet and inetd.conf/xinetd.conf years ago, but here's what I remember: Make sure the corresponding line in inetd.conf for telnet is uncommented and send a HUP signal to inetd to re-read the config file. The change to xinetd required a similar process. How to get it up and running when Systemd's in control, see
this link for some tips. (BTW, that link was the first hit when I asked the Google:
start telnet server ubuntu.)
Editing across the network would be far easier via SSH than with telnet what with having to key in passwords all the time. (I use Emacs and its Tramp-mode via SSH and it works, as they say. "a treat".)
HTH...
