On Mon, 22 May 2000, Meghan Madel wrote:
> Hello,
> It is my understanding that telnet comes with all releases of Linux and
> there is no installing or configuring that needs to be done. I just
> upgraded to Red hat 6.1 and telnet is not working. Has anybody seen this.
> Everything seems to be fine in inetd.conf
>
There are two telnet packages -- telnet and telnet-server.
You need to make sure you have BOTH installed. Other than
that, you also can't (as you probably know) telnet in as
"root" for security reasons.
You might consider looking at SSH anyway, as it's a secure
telnet session, so to speak.
John
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