How to enable to serivce in.telnetd & in.ftpd

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Topic: How to enable to serivce in.telnetd & in.ftpd
started by: kennyfung

Posted by kennyfung on Dec. 01 2004,08:39

Hi,
Anybody know how to enable the serivce in.telnetd and in.ftpd at DSL-v.0.8.3?

Posted by ico2 on Dec. 01 2004,09:25

i don't think dsl includes a telnet demon, you might have to apt get telnetd (remember to have dsl-dpkg installed)

Posted by kennyfung on Dec. 02 2004,00:52

Hi ico2,
The telnetd is installed. I think I need to configure the telnetd after the installation. I found that the script /etc/inetd.conf but I did not know how to configure it. Do you any ideas? Thanks.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Dec. 02 2004,02:56

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Posted by ico2 on Dec. 02 2004,13:54

It should be something like /etc/telnetd.conf or /etc/telndetd/telnetd.conf or something similiar.

Posted by evilone on Jan. 29 2006,23:56

just open up /etc/inetd.conf

and put in the line

telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd

kill inetd then start it up again and the telnet daemon will be up and running

Posted by bigjay517 on Feb. 19 2006,15:46

Hello I installed telnet and have it running (i think). I am new to linux so I am learning. When I try to connect with windows telnet from command prompt it says it can't connect. Any Suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Posted by Fallen Kell on Aug. 11 2006,18:31

I know it has been several months since this topic came up, sorry about that.

To bigjay517, you need to add a line to /etc/hosts.allow,

telnet in.telnetd : ALL@ALL : ALLOW

That should now allow connections from telnet (assuming you used in.telnetd).

I am just wondering. I am making a custom DSL CD, and just wanted to check, aside from getting in.telnetd, placing it in /usr/sbin, modifying /etc/hosts.allow, and /etc/inetd.conf, is there anything else that needs to be done to get telnet to automatically start at boot (assuming you have network enabled)?