telnetd(8)

telnetd8

Telnet server

Usage

telnetd [OPTION ...]

Overview

DARPA telnet protocol server

--accept-env=NAME

accept the environment variable from clients

-E, --exec-login=STRING

set program to be executed instead of standard login(1)

-h, --no-hostinfo

do not print host information before login has been completed

-l, --linemode[=MODE]

set line mode

-n, --no-keepalive

disable TCP keep-alive

-U, --reverse-lookup

refuse connections from addresses that cannot be mapped back into a symbolic name

-?, --help

give this help list

--usage

give a short usage message

-V, --version

print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.3–2.0
  4. 2.1
  5. 2.2
  6. 3.0
  7. 3.1–4.0
  8. 5.0–8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

--accept-env since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --exec-login since Debian 10 (Buster); --help since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --linemode since Debian 10 (Buster); --no-hostinfo since Debian 10 (Buster); --no-keepalive since Debian 10 (Buster); --reverse-lookup since Debian 10 (Buster); --usage since Debian 10 (Buster); --version since Debian 10 (Buster); -? since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; -E since Debian 10 (Buster); -U since Debian 10 (Buster); -V since Debian 10 (Buster); -h since Debian 1.2 (Rex); -l since Debian 10 (Buster); -n since Debian 1.2 (Rex).

--authmode until Debian 13 (Trixie); --debug until Debian 13 (Trixie); --disable-auth-type until Debian 13 (Trixie); --server-principal until Debian 13 (Trixie); -B until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -D until Debian 13 (Trixie); -I until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -L until Debian 9 (Stretch); -N until Debian 9 (Stretch); -S until Debian 13 (Trixie); -X until Debian 13 (Trixie); -a until Debian 13 (Trixie); -debug until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -edebug until Debian 9 (Stretch); -k until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -r until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -s until Debian 9 (Stretch); -u until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -w until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -y until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -z until Debian 9 (Stretch).

Author

Written by many authors.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

From inetutils 2.8-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.