Fw: [olug] Telnet on Private Network

[Mike Peterson]

 The telnet file for xinetd that resides in /etc/xinetd.d exists.

# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
#       unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
        disable = no
        flags           = REUSE
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
        log_on_failure  += USERID
}


I can run the telnet server via the command line and can connect to it.
The command I run as root is
 
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd -debug 23
 
This allows me to connect for one instance and then when I disconnect it
terminates the task.
 
I have stopped and started xinetd.
I have rebooted the system.
 
 I installed the updated rpm for xinetd.
I installed the updated rpm for telnet-server also.

I added 
port = 23
to the telnet file above and no change.