Hi,

I have installed one of the telnet rpm's that comes with redhat 7.2 (not the telnet server version). When i type rpm -q telnet it comes back showing that the package is installed. However, when i try to connect to telnet (either from my windows laptop, or on the linux server - telnet localhost) it comes back with connection refused. I started xinetd and it still didn't work. I don't have the telnet server installed because it needs to be a secure syslog server, but we do need access to the box via telnet. In the neantime i've shutoff xinetd. Did i install the right package? What do i need to start so that i can connect to the box via telnet?

Thanks.

You need the telnet server, however telnet is NOT secure. For that you should use ssh (man sshd and man sshd). you can access ssh from a Linux box aand from windows you will need a software called putty You can download it from here. If you still want to use telnet, then you have to install the telnet server it is comething like telnet-server-version.architecture.rpm I think that should do it. Though, telnet is a xinetd service, ssh not, it is different the way you configura it... Still I think that you can configure sshd to be a inetd service, but it would be better if yu keep it apart.

Hope I helped.

You need to install the telnet daemon (ie the server) if you actually want your server to accept an incoming telnet connection. You installed the client.

I installed both the server and the client (I assume that's the other telnet rpm package on the cd --telnet-0.17-20). I went into /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and turned it on, then chkconfig xinetd on, and restarted xinetd and i still get connection refused when i try to telnet localhost or remotely. I've heard that you can telnet with telnetd off....as long as the telnet server rpm is installed. Is this true? Where is telnetd.....is that the telnet in /etc/xinetd.d? Also, when i try netstat -l it doesn't show telnet or port 23.

Thanks.

Check your hosts.allow file.

I didn't do anything to hosts.allow or hosts.deny.

Do you use a firewall? if so you have to set port 23 to allow onnectios. Still, I insist on ssh.

I mentioned the hosts.allow file because you just added a new service to your system. You might need to add this service to the file.

After installing telnet server, you need to check the file /etc/xinetd.d/telnet, make sure the line "disable = no" present and re-run xinetd.