Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:38:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Dino Tose <dinotose@yahoo.com> To: John Straiton <jsmailing@clickcom.com>, 'William Ashworth' <willybaby12345@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How to turn on telnet on server. Message-ID: <20030415193839.97877.qmail@web12907.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <002d01c30381$ab5d7880$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com>
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I would like to thank everyone that responded to this email. I understood most of it. I am still new to Unix OS and commands I understand VI very little. I know how to get into it but modifying a coment and things like that I am not able to do it yet. I need to study a bit more. As far as the ssh I have no idea what this is. Thanks Dino --- John Straiton <jsmailing@clickcom.com> wrote: > William, > I believe that would be ESC :q! if you wanted to NOT > save your changes, > or ESC :w :q if you did want to save them and quit. > > Typing "inetd" will not restart inetd it will spawn > an additional copy > (as seen by doing a "ps auxwm | grep inetd", > "killall -HUP inetd" will > restart the daemon. > > Dino, > William is correct on uncommenting the #telnet line > of inetd.conf, as he > is on recommending ssh instead of telnet. Ssh is > enabled by default and > acts just like telnet except that the session is > encrypted for an extra > layer of safety. Telnet sessions are trivial to > snoop in on. > > You could use any other editor as well. Many others > like "joe" are very > popular. vi's advantage (over being a very powerful > tool) is that it's > on almost every *nix system made. > > John Straiton > jks@clickcom.com > Clickcom, Inc > 704-365-9970x101 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On > Behalf Of > > William Ashworth > > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 2:58 PM > > To: Dino Tose > > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: How to turn on telnet on server. > > > > > > /etc/inetd.conf > > > > Simply uncomment the line, then save (:q! in VI > Editor) > > > > Then restart inetd by typing "inetd" > > > > Thanks, > > Will Ashworth > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dino Tose" <dinotose@yahoo.com> > > To: <questions@freebsd.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:54 AM > > Subject: How to turn on telnet on server. > > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I am working with a Unix Server, FreeBSD 3.4 > version. > > > > > > Telnet is set on this server but has been > disable how > > > do I enable it? What I want to do is to get > access to > > > this server from home. Can you also tell about > > > security having this server running at all > times? how > > > do I set it? so it becames secure. > > > > > > Thank You > > > > > > Dino Tose > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo > http://search.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com
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