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- Disclaimer:
- Before installing and using Telnet, keep the following in mind.
- Using Telnet in public network(WAN) is very very bad idea. It transmits login data in the clear format. Everything will be sent in plain text.
- If you still need Telnet, It is highly recommended use it in the local area network only.
- Alternatively, you can use SSH. But make sure you’ve disabled root login in SSH.
- What Is Telnet?
- Telnet is a network protocol which is used to connect to remote computers over TCP/IP network. Once you establish a connection to the remote computer, it becomes a virtual terminal and will allow you to communicate with the remote host from your local system.
- In this brief tutorial, let us see how to install Telnet, and how to access remote systems via Telnet.
- Installation
- Open your terminal and type the following command to install telnet:
- yum install telnet telnet-server -y
- Now, the telnet has been installed in your server. Next, edit the telnet configuration file /etc/xinetd.d/telnet;
- vi /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
- Set disable = no:
- # default: on
- # description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
- # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
- service telnet
- {
- flags = REUSE
- socket_type = stream
- wait = no
- user = root
- server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
- log_on_failure += USERID
- disable = no
- }
- Save and quit the file. Be mindful that you don’t have do this step in CentOS 7.
- Now restart the telnet service using the following command:
- On CentOS 6.x systems:
- service xinetd start
- Make this service to start automatically on every reboot:
- On CentOS 6:
- chkconfig telnet on
- chkconfig xinetd on
- On CentOS 7:
- systemctl start telnet.socket
- systemctl enable telnet.socket
- Allow the telnet default port 23 through your firewall and Router. To allow the telnet port through firewall, Edit file /etc/sysconfig/iptables on CentOS 6.x systems:
- vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
- Add the line as shown in red color:
- # Firewall configuration written by system-config-firewall
- # Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
- *filter
- :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
- :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
- :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
- -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
- -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
- -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
- -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 23 -j ACCEPT
- -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
- -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
- -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
- COMMIT
- Save and exit the file. Restart iptables service:
- service iptables restart
- On CentOS 7, run the following commands to enable telnet service through firewall.
- firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=23/tcp
- firewall-cmd --reload
- Thats it. Now telnet server is ready to use.
- Creating users
- Create a test user, for example “sk” with password “centos“:
- useradd sk
- passwd sk
- Client Side Configuration
- Install telnet package:
- yum install telnet
- On DEB based systems:
- sudo apt-get install telnet
- Now, open Terminal, and try to access your server(remote host).
- If your client is Linux system, open the terminal and type the following command to connect to telnet server.
- telnet 192.168.1.150
- Enter username and password which we have created in the server:
- Sample output:
- Trying 192.168.1.150...
- Connected to 192.168.1.150.
- Escape character is '^]'.
- Kernel 3.10.0-123.13.2.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64
- server1 login: sk
- Password:
- [sk@server1 ~]$
- As you see in the above output, the remote system has been successfully accessed from the local machine.
- If your client is windows system, then go to Start -> Run -> Command Prompt.
- In the command prompt, type the command:
- telnet 192.168.1.150
- Where 192.168.1.150 is remote host IP address.
- Now you will be able to connect to your server.
- That’s it.
- Cheers!
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