Showing posts with label telnetd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label telnetd. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Install and enable telnet daemon on Raspberry Pi

Telnetd isn't enabled by default.

sudo apt -y install telnetd

Edit /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment line 23 (line number is just a co-incidence).
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#:STANDARD: These are standard services.
telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/telnetd
Restart the inetd service
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sudo systemctl restart inetutils-inetd.service

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