Re: [cobalt-security] Telent 0.17 Update

[Ted Behling <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:33 PM 8/19/01 -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
>With all due respect, Ted, please read my reply to Michael.  Of course I
>look forward to your response <smile>.
>
>Ted Behling wrote:
>
>> 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" .

My humble apologies.

To reference your other message, I've never had SSH go down, either.  I
suppose your thinking isn't all that bad, after all.  If SSH were to die,
it'd probably be for a reason I can't fix by using telnet, anyway.  It'd be
time to call Interliant...

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