How to enable telnet in default Red Hat installation

Applies to following Redhat Versions : 7.2 8.0 1. Edit /etc/xinetd.d/telnet 2. Change the line from disable = yes to disable = no 3. restart xinetd (the extended internet super server) /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start