How to enable telnet service on ubuntu

Posted on December 18, 2008

By default,telnet server is not installed on ubuntu desktop edition.So if you want to enable telnet service on ubuntu you must install telnet server .

To install telnet server you just need to run command sudo apt-get install telnetd in terminal

sudo apt-get install telnetd

Also you need to restart the inetd service the enable telnet service immediately.

sudo apt-get install telnetd

Then you can test your telnet service by telneting to your localhost:

j@j-desktop:~$ telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Ubuntu 8.10
j-desktop login:

If you get results like this,you can try to telnet to your ubuntu from other computer.

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One Response to “How to enable telnet service on ubuntu”

  1. Roman on August 31st, 2010 1:04 am

    To restart inetd service better use:
    sudo /etc/init.d/inetd restart

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