How start BusyBox telnetd service?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Sep 13 01:13:32 UTC 2005


On Monday 12 September 2005 07:29, Porkodi wrote:
>   Sorry I missed these details.
> I'm using Red Hat Linux 9. Kernel version is 2.4.20-6
>
> Hi  All,
> I'm very much new to the BusyBox. I'm using BusyBox-1.01.
> I tried to start telnetd service like
> #./busybox telnetd
> It asks for username and passwd , if I give them it logs into the
> local machine.
>   But I want to use telnetd service to telnet from a remote machine
> not from a local machine.
>   Is there any way to start the telnetd service and login from a remote
> machine?
> Anyone Please help me.

Lemme guess:

You've enabled the "Run from inetd only" config option, and are trying to run 
it from something other than inetd?

Rob



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