Can't telnet to freebsd box

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Sun Mar 19 04:23:44 UTC 2006


Chris Maness wrote:
> telnet is not enabled by default.  Uncomment the telnet line in 
> inetd.conf and /etc/rc.d/inetd restart

Better yet, install a free ssh client on the PC like Putty, and use ssh. 
Telnet is deprecated because it's insecure.

Mike
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