Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Install and Configure Telnet : Fedora

STEP 1:Install Telnet package

yum install telnet-server
yum install xinetd

STEP 2:
Edit the following and find the line for disable and change it from the value "yes" to "no".

# vim /etc/xinetd.d/telnet

STEP 3:
Restart the xinetd deamon

STEP 4:
Inorder to configure Telnet for root logins

Simply edit the file /etc/securetty and add the following to the end of the file:

pts/0
pts/1
pts/2
pts/3
pts/4
pts/5
pts/6
pts/7
pts/8
pts/9
This will allow up to 10 telnet sessions to the server as root

Friday, August 6, 2010

Command to search package name in Linux

Ubuntu:

#apt-cache search package name

Fedora:

#yum list package name