How To Install telnet-server on CentOS 8

telnet-server is The server program for the Telnet remote login protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet-server on CentOS 8.

What is telnet-server

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 or dnf to install telnet-server on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install telnet-server.

Install telnet-server on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install telnet-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install telnet-server

Install telnet-server on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install telnet-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install telnet-server

How To Uninstall telnet-server on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the telnet-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove telnet-server

telnet-server Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/5f040e777944d0767009edf5ed5f25dd420b7e
/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 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.