Re: [SLUG] suse user lost with Red Hat - Help

From: Steve (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2003 - 02:31:41 EST


On Monday 17 November 2003 09:55 pm, you wrote:
> > Though I am used to how SUSE does buisiness. How do I configure red hat
> > 9 to autostart the telnet service and SWAT that wonderful web interface
> > to samba?
>
> Telnet server is configured under xinetd instead of an rc script. To
> enable it, first verify that the telnet server is installed:
>
> rpm -q telnet-server
>
> If it is, cd to /etc/xinetd.d/. You should see a file called "telnet"
> there. Edit the file and change the "disable = yes" to "disable = no".
> Finally, restart the xinetd service:
>
> /sbin/service xinetd restart

Just beware of the fact you send login in cleartext with telnet. SSH is a
better choice. Even available under windows as PUTTY.

-- 
Steve

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