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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2002 09:36:25 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        "Le, Paul" <ple02@sprintspectrum.com>
Cc:        "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: telnet
Message-ID:  <20020719213625.GC17899@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3F06C9859CA7D31194ED0000D1ECC4AB14C48829@pkcexv007.sprintspectrum.com>
References:  <3F06C9859CA7D31194ED0000D1ECC4AB14C48829@pkcexv007.sprintspectrum.com>

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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 <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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