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+To install telnet: "yum install telnet-server"
+
+The only thing that has to be done to get telnet to work is to enable it through
+xinetd.
+
+To do this simply toggle disabled from yes to no in the file:
+/etc/xinetd.d/telnet and restart xinetd.