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Install and Configure Telnet on CentOS 7

To install and configure telnet on CentOS/RHEL 7: 1. Install the telnet-server and telnet RPM packages using yum if they are not already present. 2. Edit the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file to disable = no and enable the telnet service in /etc/xinetd.conf. 3. Start the telnet server using chkconfig and service, and restart xinetd for the changes to take effect.

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Install and Configure Telnet on CentOS 7

To install and configure telnet on CentOS/RHEL 7: 1. Install the telnet-server and telnet RPM packages using yum if they are not already present. 2. Edit the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file to disable = no and enable the telnet service in /etc/xinetd.conf. 3. Start the telnet server using chkconfig and service, and restart xinetd for the changes to take effect.

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Install telnet

1. In order to turn Telnet on make sure that you have the correct telnet-
server and telnet RPMs installed. To verify if you have the telnet packages
installed, use the below command.

# rpm -qa | grep telnet


telnet-server-0.17-26.EL3.2
telnet-0.17-26.EL3.2

2. If you do not have the telnet-server or telnet packages installed, you can
install them with the RPMs available from your installation media or you
can use the yum utility to download and install the package(s). For
example:

# yum install telnet-server telnet

Enable telnet

Once you have the packages installed, check the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file
and ensure that disable = yes is changed to read disable = no.

# vi /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \\
# unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream

wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/[Link]
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}

2. If the below line is uncommented in /etc/[Link] then add telnet to the


file.

# vi /etc/[Link]
enabled = telnet

Turn the telnet server on


1. Turn the Telnet server on using the chkconfig command and then make
the service available for immediate use with the service command.

Note : You must be root in order to use these commands. Also, if you get
“command not found” then you may need to use the full path of the
command. For example, to find the full path of the chkconfig command,
type which chkconfig and you should get the full path: /sbin/chkconfig.
# chkconfig --list telnet
telnet off

# chkconfig telnet on

# chkconfig --list telnet


telnet on

The chkconfig command will make the Telnet server available to start the
next time the system is rebooted.

2. You will notice that Telnet is part of the xinetd daemon. In order to make
the Telnet service available immediately, use service command to restart
the xinetd daemon.

# service xinetd restart


Stopping xinetd: [ OK ]
Starting xinetd: [ OK ]

Verify

You should now be able to successfully Telnet to the server:

# telnet [Link]
Trying [Link]...
Connected to [Link]
Escape character is '^]'.
[snip]
login: user
Password:
Last login: Sat Nov 2 [Link] from [Link]

CentOS / RHEL 7 : How to install and configure telnet

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