Telnet in RHEL5

Install this rpm telnet-server-0.17-31.EL4.3.i386.rpm
service xinetd reload

if rrot login is blocked

do this

To overcome this “problem”, simply open /etc/pam.d/remote and remark this following line, where the PAM module pam_securetty.so disallows root user login remotely via telnet and the alike (except SSH).

Original /etc/pam.d/remote with this line:

auth required pam_securetty.so

Tweaked /etc/pam.d/remote that remark (comment out) pam_securetty.so:

# auth required pam_securetty.so