Hi

I'm currently setting up a web server using the Ubuntu Server distro and am intending on running the box headless, however I am having trouble installing the telnet daemon.

I initially tried installing telnetd using apt-get and then, according to a tutorial, attempted to do:

# /etc/init.d/telnetd start

but /etc/init.d/telnetd doesn't exist. I then tried

# /etc/services telnetd start

which said 'permission denied'

Following this, I tried installing inetutils-inetd and inetutils-telnetd and uncommented the telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf, and then restarted inetd, but I still can't seem to get the telnet daemon running. ('ps aux | grep telnetd' only shows 'grep telnetd' and attempting 'telnet localhost' says 'connection refused')

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1337_penguin

Why do you want to use telnet? it's old and insecure.
I would suggest you install ssh instead, much more secure and easier to run and install.

It's only going to be accessible from my LAN, so security isn't that much of an issue and I still don't understand all the keys and stuff for SSH.

Thanks for the advice. I've installed openssh-server and that seems to be fine.

1337_penguin

I found that telnetd can be difficult to setup ans open-ssh is quite easy.
You don't need to know about the keys in ssh, just login with password.
SSH has other functionality as well, like tunnels and X11 forwarding, IMO it's all around just better.