How to turn Telnet on in Linux

In order to turn Telnet on do the following.

  1. To see if it is installed, type:

#  rpm  -q  telnet  (it will bring up a version)

  1. If it is not installed then you can  type:

#  yum  install  telnet-server  telnet

  1. Once installed, edit the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file and make sure                disable = yes is changed to disable =  no

*On the server, you can go to Applications>System Tools>File Browser

  then click on File System and open the etc folder>xinetd.d folder and

  right click and open the telnet file with text editor

  1. Next turn the Telnet server on using the chkconfig command

#  chkconfig  --list  telnet

telnet          off

#  chkconfig telnet  on

#  chkconfig  --list  telnet

telnet          on

  1. Lastly,  restart the xinetd service

#  service  xinetd  restart