[TriLUG] a simple question

Chris Hedemark chrish at trilug.org
Wed Jun 4 19:15:51 EDT 2003


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On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 09:39 AM, Ian Zhang wrote:

> I have installed Red Hat 8.  How do I enable ftp and telnet access on 
> my own machine?

ftp:
* vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
* change "disable = yes" to "disable = no"
* service xinetd restart

telnet:
This is one of those things where grizzled old sysadmins usually say if 
you have to ask, then you probably don't understand the security 
implications and shouldn't be told.  Telnet is evil.  99.999% of people 
don't really have a viable excuse to enable it.  sshd is probably 
already there, and should be used instead.


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Chris Hedemark
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