From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 14:36:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEFE37B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717F043E67 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:36:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6JLaP7i080876; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 09:36:25 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6JLaPpF080875; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 09:36:25 +1200 (NZST) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 09:36:25 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Le, Paul" Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: telnet Message-ID: <20020719213625.GC17899@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3F06C9859CA7D31194ED0000D1ECC4AB14C48829@pkcexv007.sprintspectrum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F06C9859CA7D31194ED0000D1ECC4AB14C48829@pkcexv007.sprintspectrum.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 03:53:49PM -0500, Le, Paul wrote: > I just install freeBSD for the first time. How do I get telnet working so I > can access from another windows machine? Uncomment the line that reads: #telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf, and restart inetd by kill -HUP'ing it. However, you should give serious thought to using sshd instead. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message