[X-Unix] Temp Telnet Activation

[Zathras' Lackey]

Telnet works here - 10.3.4.  I didn't do anything special to get it to 
run.


On Jun 28, 2004, at 20:22, Dave Higgins wrote:

> I understand that standard telnet access is disabled on OS X for a 
> good reason (and ssh is better to use), but I need to know how to 
> temporarily turn it on and then off. A one-liner Terminal / shell 
> command would be best for activating (rather than a startup config 
> type setting).
>
> As for deactivating, a simple kill on the process ID would probably 
> work (assuming the PID is easy to find (/var/run/telnet.pid maybe?))
>
> Seems I read once how to do this, but a Google search retuned WAY too 
> many unrelated hits (guess I just didn't hit the right search phrase).