How To Install telnet-server on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet-server on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the telnet-server package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove telnet-server
telnet-server Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/7ddd2711647b9409e0816f863a9a91a8bc6051
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.