setting up Telnet

[kidwired]

I have 1 ext IP and thats on my router.

So I cracked open port xxxx on my router and passed it to the ip of my box. that SHOULD work.

I'm using Xinetd. when I telnet localhost it says connection refused.
what am I missing?

[jvolm]

First, make sure it's not the router. Try "telnet localhost". If that doesn't work, telnet probably isn't runing.

Did you install telnetd on your computer? It's not default in many distros due to the security issues inherent to telnet.

If you have installed it, is it running? At the command line, run ps -ax and look for the process "telnetd" on the right hand column. If it's not there, telnetd isn't running, and that's why you can't log in.

Now, the obligatory: Don't use telnet!!! Use SSH! Telnet sends passwords in plain text. That is very bad. SSH encrypts what is sent, and works just like telnet. You won't be able to tell the difference when you're using it. And, sshd is part of the standard install. For a good ssh client, try putty (just google it).

Really, use SSH; it's a lot better. Open up port 22 on your router and use putty to access it.

[kidwired]

telnet local host does not work
I grep'd telnet-server it's installed. Its not running, /etc/xinetd.d/telnet says "disable = no", I restarted
xinet by doing a "service xinetd restart". still no worky.

[kidwired]

SSH worked!

[jvolm]

Great!

Enjoy!