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harizen
 Post subject: Help installing telnet
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:23 pm 
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I am running Ubuntu 10.04

Followed this:
$ sudo apt-get install telnetd

$ sudo /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart

$ whereis telnetd
telnetd: /usr/share/man/man8/telnetd.8.gz

What am I missing?

Thanks
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vonskippy
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:34 pm 
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harizen wrote:
What am I missing?

About 20 years of security best practice policies.

No one uses Telnet - use SSH instead.
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harizen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:03 pm 
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Yeah, fortunately I am aware of that.

Apologies for not mentioning why I need it.

I am setting up postfix and I am getting the error

ct 19 19:53:36 lixxx-xxx postfix/smtpd[17896]: warning: xsasl_cyrus_server_get_mechanism_list: no applicable SASL mechanisms
Oct 19 19:53:36 lixxx-xxx2 postfix/smtpd[17896]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

In order to debug, telnet to localhost is very helpful.

Thanks for any help,
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otherbbs
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:35 pm 
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harizen wrote:
In order to debug, telnet to localhost is very helpful.

telnet-client maybe instead of the daemon (telnetd)?

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:44 pm 
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http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/inetutils-telnet

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/telnet-ssl
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harizen
 Post subject: Thanks! That was it.
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:49 pm 
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I installed

apt-get install inetutils-telnet

Appreciate your help very much!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:26 pm 
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Now turn off telnetd unless you really want people to connect with passwords in plaintext?

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