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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:41:38 +0100
From:      Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Enabling Telnet capabilities
Message-ID:  <20020712184138.GA15559@catflap.home.slightlystrange.or>
In-Reply-To: <F505b6KZmcK8r6beUzm0000f3a2@hotmail.com>
References:  <F505b6KZmcK8r6beUzm0000f3a2@hotmail.com>

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 06:23:36PM +0000, Jed Sargent wrote:
> 
> 
> Been trying to add the capability to Telnet into my Box, but have been 
> unable to so far.  All of the reference material is for doing a serial 
> connection, which I can do, just not an ethernet connection.  I believe my 
> problem is in the TTYS file, not using the right line entry on the ttyp0.  

Show us your current config.  Tell us about what happens when you try
to connect - error messages, timeouts, what?

You probably don't need to alter any of the pseudo terminal values in
/etc/ttys, and you must enable telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf.

Dan

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