How To Install telnet-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is telnet-server.x86_64
Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the Internet. The package includes a daemon that supports Telnet remote logins into the host machine. The daemon is disabled by default. You may enable the daemon by editing /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
We can use yum to install telnet-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install telnet-server.x86_64.
Install telnet-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install telnet-server.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install telnet-server.x86_64
How To Uninstall telnet-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the telnet-server.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove telnet-server.x86_64
telnet-server.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib/systemd/system/telnet.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd
/usr/share/man/man5/issue.net.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/in.telnetd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/telnetd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.