unable to connect to Yellow Dog Linux machine through telnet

[Gavin Hemphill]

I'm glad I'm not anywhere near your networks, private or not.
	G++

RON FLORY wrote:

> Timothy.Cappiello@gd-ais.com wrote:
> 
>> How do I enable a yellow dog Linux machine to accept telnet requests?  
>> When
>> connecting to the machine the message "Could not open a connection to 
>> host
>> on port 23 : Connect failed"
> 
> 
>  if you are on a local private network and security is NOT an issue,
> try changing the following line in:
> 
> /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
> 
>  from:
> 
>        disable     = yes
> 
>  to:
> 
>        disable     = no
> 
> 
> 
>  Then restart xinitd
> 
>      /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
> 
> 
>  ssh is nice, secure and all that rot, but its a bit of overkill
> on a private local network.
> 
> ron
> 
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