Setting Up Telnetd

Every couple of years I want to setup telnetd on my linux box again. Each time I get telnetd installed and then try and figure out why it's not started. So this time around this is what I needed to do:

sudo apt-get install telnetd

This included openbsd-inetd for me. However:

sudo /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart

reported:

Not starting internet superserver: no services enabled.

The missing step was to include this line in /etc/inetd.conf:

telnet  stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd