This is my first post in blog world.I wish it will be helpful to others.
This is about how to setup telnet in solaris 9

The “inetd” demon runs the telnet server. By default, the telnet is disabled in Solaris. It not recommended to login via telnet in an unsecured environment.

Check whether inet daemon is running.

ps -ef | grep inetd

Now edit the file /etc/inet/inetd.conf. Find the following lines

# TELNETD - telnet server daemon

telnet  stream  tcp6    nowait  root    /usr/sbin/in.telnetd    in.telnetd

Make sure that “telnet” line is uncommented.

Now open the file /etc/inet/services. Uncomment the line which says telnet

telnet          23/tcp

Now you need to restart the inetd if it was running or you need to start it.

find the process id using

ps -ef |grep inetd

kill -HUP <processid>

to restart the daemon.

If the service was not started initially, start it using the following command

/usr/sbin/inetd -s

check with ps -ef whether the process is running. Now try to connect using telnet and it should work fine.

The telnet root login won’t work. To enable it make the changes given below.

Assign 644 permission to the file /etc/default/login

chmod 644 /etc/default/login

Edit the file to find the line

CONSOLE=/dev/console

Comment the above line. Now the telnet should work fine for root login too. PLEASE NOTE THAT ENABLING ROOT LOGIN IS UNSECURE FOR A PRODUCTION SYSTEM.

Gr8 you have done.