Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Enable Telnet in RHEL

Release:
RedHat Enterprise Linux

Problem:
Enable Telnet Service in RHEL

Solution:

1) Install the telnet RPMs
        #yum install telnet-server

2) Enable the telnet service from the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file
        # vi /etc/xinetd.d/telnet

               In this file change "disable = yes" to "no"

3) Restart the service
        # service xinetd restart

4) Check the connection from the client side