Linux - How to install Telnet on Red Hat/OEL ?
About
Telnet is a service in xinetd.d.
How to install the Telnet Server?
In the installation CD, in the Server directory.
[[email protected] Server]# dir | grep -i telnet
perl-Net-Telnet-3.03-5.noarch.rpm
telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.rpm
telnet-server-0.17-39.el5.i386.rpm
[[email protected] Server]# rpm -Uvh telnet-server*
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:telnet-server ########################################### [100%]
[[email protected] Server]#
How to start the Telnet Server?
You can use chkconfig if you want to instead of service. To use chkconfig, the command is
[[email protected] Server]# chkconfig telnet on
Alternatively, edit the telnet configuration file (/etc/xinetd.d/telnet) and change disable = yes to disable = no.
If xinetd is not currently running
[[email protected] Server]# ps -elf | grep xinetd
5 S root 3325 1 0 77 0 - 680 - 20:49 ? 00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
0 S root 5506 4431 0 78 0 - 979 pipe_w 21:47 pts/1 00:00:00 grep xinetd
The running xinetd (extend Internet service daemon) listens to telnet client request on port 23 and spawn the telnet-server (/usr/sbin/in.telnetd) upon request, shut it down when telnet client drop the connection.
To confirm xinetd is listening to port 23, execute the netstat utility:
[[email protected] Server]# netstat -tulpan | grep 23
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:723 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2661/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:23 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3325/xinetd
Root Connection impossible
Telnet client transmit account password in plain text format over (vulnerable) network. Thus, by default, Red Hat Linux (and most Linux distributions) disables telnet daemon and disallow root user to login directly via telnet protocol.
With telnet
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Carthage)
Kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 on an i686
login: gerardnico
Password:password
Last login: Wed Oct 14 12:03:40 on :0
[[email protected] ~]$
Help
[[email protected] Server]# man in.telnetd login