installation of telnetd under redhat 7.2

[thekillerbean]

i recently installed redhat linux 7.2 but i'm having a difficult time setting up telnetd. what i'm looking for is the linuxconf tool - shouldn't it be installed by default? how else can one configure the redhat linux box if linuxconf is not considered safe?

i only want to run redhat in a vmware virtual machine for the sake of script writing practice.

thanks.

[thekillerbean]

okay guy's - looks like no ones really interested in this one at all.

well, i managed to fix the problem by configuring x and using gui tools to start the telnet daemon.

later.

[Icarus]

Probally 'cause I've had this post open for the last 2 weeks :)
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=283982#post283982

My problem is I don't have any GUI tools (characture only) but I think that last post might be my ticket...


and Red Hat stopped loading Linuxconf by default after 7.0....you can still load it by manually selecting the packages or loading it off the CD later.

[scanez]

Might I suggest you consider using ssh instead of telnet? Telnet is very insecure in that it sends passwords over a network as plain-text making it easier for someone trying to hack into your system to be able to do so, ssh on the other hand encrypts password ;) The daemon is called sshd, it might already be installed by default.

[thekillerbean]

mahdi, i actually used the search function and after reading a few of the posts, did not see any that resembled my situation.

scanez, i'm not too worried about security right now as i'm only just now starting to delve a little deeper into linux. i'm running it as a virtual machine via vmware on windows 2000 adv. server. i'm just experimenting with script writing for a job i'm eyeing.

thanks for the kind words.