enable telnet server in Mageia
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The only comment I've ever found about $SUBJECT is a warning when installing netkit-telnet-server that the admin must configure its use manually, which managed to escape logging and my memory. There seems to be no documentation about making telnet server operable on Mageia, and no clues from man or journalctl or systemctl about it. On Fedora and openSUSE it can be configured by enabling telnetd.socket and xinetd, but apparently this configuration is installed on those distros, so only needs enabling, not figuring out to set up whatever is required or where documentation to do so is squirreled away for Mageia's differently named rpms. Can someone please tell me how to enable telnet server in Mageia 6 and/or 7, or provide clues to documentation for same? |
Question: why would anyone, in 2019, want to enable TELNET server (a product of 1969) anywhere, when there have been better solutions since 1995?
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For whatever reason you need to run a telnet server. xinetd is installed by default on version 6 so.
Have you changed disable = yes to disable = no in the the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet configuration file? Have you enabled / started xinetd via the systemctl command? |
On a Cauldon installation on host fi965 there is no "disable" or "enable" in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet, because /etc/xinetd.d/telnet does not exist.
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# systemctl status telnet.d Code:
# systemctl status xinetd Code:
# rpm -qa | grep telnet |
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http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...TP,_and_xinetd |
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lib64telnet2 Code:
â xinetd.service - Xinetd A Powerful Replacement For Inetd Code:
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