On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:59 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/24/2014 6:38 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>
>> I will not go over the question about running telnet in your
>> laptop; others will chime in. Now that is out, did you check whether
>> telnet is running using ps and netstat?
>
>
> useless advise, since telnet is almost always run from a socket, the telnetd
> is only running if there's an active connection.
>
> to the OP, the *correct* answer is, do not use or touch xinetd, and if you
> modified anything in xinetd, undo it. heck, uniinstall xinetd, nothing in
> RHEL7/CentOS7 uses xinetd anymore.
>
> root# systemctl enable telnet.socket
> root# systemctl start telnet.socket
>
I take you missed the part in my reply asking him to do
systemctl status telnet.socket
> the first command enables it so its available when the system is rebooted.
>
> the 2nd command starts it now.
>
>
> now, I will have to concur, the telnet protocol should be banned, and
> anything using it should be updated to use ssh instead. I haven't enabled
> telnetd on any unix/linux host for the last 10+ years.
>
>
>
>
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