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# Telnet (Español)

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Telnet is the traditional protocol for making remote console connections over TCP. Telnet is not secure and is mainly used to connect to legacy equipment nowadays. For a secure alternative see SSH.

Follow these instructions to configure an Arch Linux machine as a telnet server.

## Instalación

Para usar telnet solo para conectar con otras maquinas, instale el paquete inetutils (si no esta instalado):

    # pacman -S inetutils

To configure a telnet server, install xinetd as well:

    # pacman -S xinetd

## Configuración

1. To allow telnet connections in xinetd, edit `/etc/xinetd.d/telnet` and change '`disable = yes`' to '`disable = no`'

2. Add `xinetd` to the `DAEMONS` array of your rc.conf:

    DAEMONS=(... xinetd)

3. Reboot or restart xinetd:

    # /etc/rc.d/xinetd restart

### Testing the setup

Try opening a telnet connection to your server:

    $ telnet localhost

Note that you can not login as root.

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- Daemons and system services (Español)