Have you found yourself needing to use Telnet on MacOS? Rest assured thatyou’re not alone, as you have probably discovered Telnet has been removedfrom modern versions of the system software starting from MacOS Mojave andnewer. This instructions should work for MacOS Mojave and High Sierra but Ihappen to be running Catalina and this it what I did to get Telnet back.
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Installing Telnet on MacOS with Homebrew
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First I would like to mention that there is an easier route, that is usingHomebrew. I see a lot about it and many people seem happy with it but I havean aversion to putting it on my machine. If you don’t already have Homebrewon you machine, navigate over to the website and followthe installation instructions. I would caution against following themexactly though for security purposes. I would do it like this instead:
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Open and inspect the install.sh script to see and make sure what it does.And then run it.
After installing Homebrew, install Telnet
Installing Telnet on MacOS by Building Telnet from Source
This was the method I used. There are some prerequisite steps though, if youdon’t already have them you’ll need to install the MacOS command line tools.
Step 1: Installing the command line tools
Open a terminal and enter the following line, you’ll then be shown a pop upprompt.
Click install when the prompt pops up.
After that you’ll be shown a license which you’ll have to agree to in orderto install.
After that you’ll see the download progress and the install will happenafter that. Unfortunately I forget to get screen shots of the followingmessage boxes.
Step 2: Getting the Telnet source
For this step you’ll be getting the GNU network utilitiesnavigate to the download pageand find the latest source. At the time I’m writing this it’s 1.9.4:
Step 3: Extract the source
Step 4: Configure and build
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Now that the source is extracted change into the directory:
Run the configure command:
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Run the make command to build:
And then install:
Either way you choose is fairly easy, the build for this is pretty straightforward and was very quick. I don’t think it even took me 10 minutes tobuild and install.
Mocha Telnet makes it possible to connect to a host with the Telnet or SSH-2 protocol and emulate a VT220 terminal.
- Supports VT100/VT220 emulation
- SSH-2 and Telnet. Port forwarding and RSA authentication are not supported.
- Scroll Bar (as Xterm)
- User defined functions keys
- Screen mode 24*80 or 24*132
- Smart font handling. The font size follows the Window size
- Hard copy of screen
- Pass-Through Printing (Auxiliary print)
- Functions keys F1-F20 can be part of the Toolbar
- Configurable toolbar
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- Low cost : Single User license 29.85 USD or 299 USD for a Company License.
Without a license key, there is a 5 min. session limit. Try it today without a license key.
Mocha Telnet is also available in the Apple Mac Store and in the store is also a free lite version.
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What is a company license ?
With a company license it is possible to install the product on an unlimited number of work-stations. A company license can be used by a single company. If there are branch offices or home workstations, a single company license will be valid. For a multi-national company, we must ask for a company license for each country.
A subsidiary company, or sister company, cannot use a license issued for the main company.