Comments on: Setting Up a Telnet Server in Ubuntu

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:00:27 +0000

while trying this command : sudo /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart
I got this message:
* Restarting internet superserver inetd
* Not starting internet superserver: no services enabled

However I have installed the telnetd successfully by using this command:
sudo apt-get install inetutils-telnetd

By: Deepak Chaudhary

Deepak Chaudhary — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:51:40 +0000

Just do sudo apt-get install telnetd

and open telnet with 127.0.0.1 ip

you will be asked for username & password…

By: srinivas

srinivas — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:31:29 +0000

how to install media players like vlc,gom players.these are not in packages

By: ralf

ralf — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:20:34 +0000

@Rohhie: It seems that by default login as root is denied. The documentation recommends to login as ‘you’ and perform any commands you need to run as root using the sudo command (e.g.: sudo apt-get update).

By: Rohhie

Rohhie — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:10:48 +0000

Easy, Easy, Easy! OpenSSH is overkill for a private LAN. Glad I found this page! Using Server version 10.04, cannot logon as root. Any ideas?

By: Agung

Agung — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:52:13 +0000

I’m using Ubuntu 9.10 server. I install telnetd, yet I can’t find /etc/init.d/inetd files.So I can’t restart telnet server. It seems that Ubuntu has installed telnet server named openbsd-inetd on my computer. It seems that you can’t have two telnet server (inetd and openbsd-inetd) on same computer. Now i’m using openbsd-inetd as my telnet server.

By: oz log

oz log — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:08:40 +0000

thank’s for this article, so helpfull for beginer like me.

By: Dennis H

Dennis H — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:48:24 +0000

UPDATE: I uninstalled both telnet daemons and then reinstalled just the telnetd service. It seems to work fine now. Before, when I typed “inetd” on the command line, it told me that I needed to run “sudo apt-get install openbsd-inetd” which I did. That didn’t work, but apparently it causes trouble for the telnetd service.

By: Dennis H

Dennis H — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:08:57 +0000

This doesn’t work for Ubuntu 9.10. The Restart fails because there is no inetd.conf file. I found one on the web from somewhere and copied it there, but it still doesn’t work. Right now, the best I have been able to do is get telnet to respond and immediately close the connection.

I’ve been working on this all day. So far, no mater what I do, I can’t get this thing to work.

They really should have some sort of setup wizard for these common servers.

By: jeff domique

jeff domique — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:43:45 +0000

thanks!

By: BrewBert

BrewBert — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:32:51 +0000

What are the caveats if I restrict telnetd to an openvpn tun adapter? I think using ssh over a trusted vpn is overkill …efficiency-wise.

By: Anass-maroc

Anass-maroc — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:41:45 +0000

http://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/intrepid/xinetd

/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

By: john

john — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:22:53 +0000

there is a type-o above.
sudo /etc/init.d/inetd restart
should read (on 8.04 anyway)
sudo /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart

By: Skavenger

Skavenger — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:39:59 +0000

I’m just going to reinforce that on some occasions there is no other choice but to use telnet. For example I need it becuase my work uses Win XP and AD and prevents all unathorised .exe and installations so all I can use is hyperterminal. Which does not connect to SSH.

By: Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:54:07 +0000

Eek !! Telnet. Do not use it.

* @Deiussum : the port 22 is blocked by the firewall ? Use SSH on the Telnet port.
* You need a SSH client for Windows ? I can think of two softwares :
- PuTTY : A SSH client : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/
- WinSCP : A SCP client (for file transfers using SSH) : http://winscp.net/eng/docs/lang:fr

By: Abeer

Abeer — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:45:07 +0000

On Ubuntu 7.10 I found we have to install inetutils-inetd and do /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart. Rest of the steps still hold.

By: Deiussum

Deiussum — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:11:45 +0000

As insecure as it is, sometimes Telnet is needed. For instance, my workplace firewall blocks outgoing traffic on port 22 and only has basic ports open for Telnet, FTP, and HTTP. It’s a dumb blocking rule, but they won’t open it.

If you only need telnet access from certain IPs like I do, you can lock it down some by using /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow.

By: harry

harry — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:22:41 +0000

hey could someone help ?

I tried to Restart inetd service but am getting this error

-bash: /etc/init.d/inetd: No such file or directory

By: frank

frank — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:11:34 +0000

you know, sometimes telnetd is needed period. yes, we all know that it old, but like i said…sometimes it’s needed and one doesn’t always have a choice…dig?

don’t listen to what B is trying to tell you. he’s a noob no doubt.

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:20:00 +0000

I also needed to install the netkit-inetd package to get the telnet server to work. I’m using Dapper LTS.