How to enable Telnet service on RHEL / CentOS 5 ?
How to enable Telnet service on RHEL / CentOS 5 ? Generally in production servers we dont use Telnet connections because this doesn't use encrypted format of trasfer or session. But some applications need this to be enabled on the server to communicate. By default this service always kept disabled. To enable it, First take a backup of "/etc/xinetd.d/telnet" configuration file; #cp /etc/xinetd.d/telnet /etc/xinetd.d/telnet.bak Now to start edit "/etc/xinetd.d/telnet" file, #vi /etc/xinetd.d/telnet Here "xinetd" word means X Internet Deamon. Search for the "disable = yes" & replace it with "disable = no". Remember here in example i have commented 1st "disable" statement. So dont get confuse. Next save file & restart "xinetd" service #service xinetd restart Done ...