HI dose anyone know how to get telnet woking in Redhat 8.0 I have installed it but can't connect to it I get a connection refused message, I have no firewall installed and can't find the telnet configuration file to see if it's disabled.

/etc/xinetd.d/telnet

do yourself a favour and don't use telnet, use ssh instead.

I know the telnet config file is in /etc/xinetd.d in RH 7.2 but I can't find it there in RH 8.0. Can anyone else locate it?

You've probably not installed the telnet server.

I believe it's left out by default.

look for telnetd in the RPMS directory on your cds..

install :

rpm -i telnetd

look in /etc/xinetd.d/ for the default telnet entry. Change 'disable=yes' to 'disable=no'

change your firewall of choice to drop packets on port 23 if you don't want it available externally.

Sometimes you *have* to have telnet access :P

Here's my config for /xinetd.d/telnet

# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
# unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}

Slick