[95719] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Disable inbound telnet. What am I missing..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Tue Oct 20 17:16:01 1998
From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:11:38 +0200
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Michael wrote:
>I thought I knew how to disable inbound telnet services, comment out the
>line in /etc/services. But when I do that I get the message ;
>
>telnet: tcp/telnet: unknown service
>
>when trying to telnet out of the box. O where have I gone wrong???
To disable inbound telnet, just comment out the telnet line in inetd.conf.
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