telnet

[theclave]

How do I start a telnet server?

[prince_kenshi]

I believe all you have to do is allow access to port 23 on your computer. You probably already have a telnet server running.

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Prince Kenshi
Son of Bahamut

[theclave]

OK, how do I do that?

[prince_kenshi]

It's all in your inetd.conf file. I believe this is in the /etc directory. I can't remember the format of the file though. Try typing "man inetd" if it's not obvious from looking at it.

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Prince Kenshi
Son of Bahamut

[theclave]

Thanks!

[Harvey]

I guess to check to be sure that telnet is running, go get

nmap

just search for it on freshmeat, then
nmap localhost
and it will show you what ports on your machine are open, you should see something about telnet port 23 being open.

also try

ps aux
and that will show you all the processees running on your machine, I think the telnet daemon should be something like

telnetd? maybe... maybe not. I forgot.
but if you see something about telnet then your telnet server is probably running.

you might want to look into usin
ssh2 www.ssh2.org (http://www.ssh2.org) or www.openssh.com (http://www.openssh.com)
since telnet has security problems like an animal.