[X-Unix] Temp Telnet Activation

[Raoul Armfield]

I do not think he meant being able to use the telnet app for outbound
connections.  I think he meant for him to allow inbound telnet
connections to his machine.

Raoul 
 

:-----Original Message-----
:From: Mac OS X Unix [mailto:X-Unix at lists.themacintoshguy.com] 
:On Behalf Of Zathras' Lackey
:Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:12 AM
:To: Mac OS X Unix
:Subject: Re: [X-Unix] Temp Telnet Activation
:
: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).
:
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