How to turn on telnet on server.

[taxman]

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 03:38 pm, Dino Tose wrote:
> I would like to thank everyone that responded to this
> email.
> I understood most of it. I am still new to Unix OS and
> commands I understand VI very little. I know how to
> get into it but modifying a coment and things like

man vi will show you all the commands.  You can also google for a quick vi 
reference.  just make sure to keep track of and understand the difference 
between command and input mode.  esc gets you to command, i gets you to 
insert.  you can only be in one or the other.

> that I am not able to do it yet. I need to study a bit
> more. As far as the ssh I have no idea what this is.

read man ssh and see www.openssh.com
definitely use ssh it works just like telnet but is more secure.
man security may help you too.

Tim


> Thanks
> Dino
>
> --- John Straiton <jsmailing at clickcom.com> wrote:
> > William,
> > I believe that would be ESC :q! if you wanted to NOT
> > save your changes,
> > or ESC :w :q if you did want to save them and quit.
> >
> > Typing "inetd" will not restart inetd it will spawn
> > an additional copy
> > (as seen by doing a "ps auxwm | grep inetd",
> > "killall -HUP inetd" will
> > restart the daemon.
> >
> > Dino,
> > William is correct on uncommenting the #telnet line
> > of inetd.conf, as he
> > is on recommending ssh instead of telnet. Ssh is
> > enabled by default and
> > acts just like telnet except that the session is
> > encrypted for an extra
> > layer of safety. Telnet sessions are trivial to
> > snoop in on.
> >
> > You could use any other editor as well. Many others
> > like "joe" are very
> > popular. vi's advantage (over being a very powerful
> > tool) is that it's
> > on almost every *nix system made.
> >
> > John Straiton
> > jks at clickcom.com
> > Clickcom, Inc
> > 704-365-9970x101
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On
> >
> > Behalf Of
> >
> > > William Ashworth
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 2:58 PM
> > > To: Dino Tose
> > > Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: How to turn on telnet on server.
> > >
> > >
> > > /etc/inetd.conf
> > >
> > > Simply uncomment the line, then save (:q! in VI
> >
> > Editor)
> >
> > > Then restart inetd by typing "inetd"
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Will Ashworth
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Dino Tose" <dinotose at yahoo.com>
> > > To: <questions at freebsd.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:54 AM
> > > Subject: How to turn on telnet on server.
> > >
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > I am working with a Unix Server, FreeBSD 3.4
> >
> > version.
> >
> > > > Telnet is set on this server but has been
> >
> > disable how
> >
> > > > do I enable it? What I want to do is to get
> >
> > access to
> >
> > > > this server from home. Can you also tell about
> > > > security having this server running at all
> >
> > times? how
> >
> > > > do I set it? so it becames secure.
> > > >
> > > > Thank You
> > > >
> > > > Dino Tose
> >
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