HELP!! REDHAT QUESTION
Quoted 2 lines · joe briggs
Please help. I have a redhat 7.3 computer accross the country that was installed using the WORKSTATION option. I desperately need to telnet into it, but with the new xinetd.d stuff, don't know how. Can ANYBODY tell me how to get the telnet deamon running on this box so that I can remotely log in?
First of all, if it was installed using the workstation option, there is no remote access, period.
That's why I always do a custom install.
If after the fact the appropriate daemons are installed, be advised that telnet is an incredibly poor choice, since you type your password in the clear, and all traffic to and from the remote host is in the clear, begging to be snooped.
Please don't enable telnet, but use secure shell for remote access - ssh clients are easily and freely available, even for the win doze pee cee platform (google for putty.exe) -
Joe