Re: [cobalt-security] Telent 0.17 Update

[Ted Behling <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:30 PM 8/19/01 -0400, Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 13:56:41 -0700, Jeff Lasman mumbled something 
>like:
>>>For those of us like me who've removed telnet daemon from the box,
>>>I'd
>>>think it a good idea that we put it back, at least temporarily, and
>>>upgrade.  Then remove it again.
>>>
>>>What do you think?
>
>Jeff, how did you remove the daemon? Just find telnetd and rm it?
>
>I think people who have turned off telnet need to do this, in case 
>SSH goes down or something.

NO!  Don't remove the in.telnetd executable!  As you said, if SSH were to
become unavailable, you would have to re-enable telnet (hopefully on a
different port).

To disable telnet, either turn it off in the GUI (if you can; I don't have
the GUI handy), or comment out the telnet line in "/etc/inetd.conf" .

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