Subject: Re: Telnet to open ports
From: Brian Watson (bcwatso1@uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 13:36:57 MDT
>Just go into /etc/inetd.conf, and comment out the line for in.telnetd, and
>killall -HUP inetd as root, that will close access to port 23 to everything,
>you should be running ssh anyway, telnet is horribly insecure.
>
> --SF
>
You are mistaken in what I was asking. It is possible to telnet into
almost any open service port, even with telnet and port 23 disabled.
I was asking about how to disable telnet to other ports through
tcpwrapper.
--Brian
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