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Re: Telnet



on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:03:32AM +1000, Richardson, Martin (RicharMP@Pasminco.com.au) wrote:
> G'Day all,
> 	I would like to set up ssh and to disable telnet for security
> reasons. Is this just a matter of installing the ssh components, and to
> disable telnetd? in inetd.conf?

Mostly.

    $ apt-get remove telnetd

...will get rid of your telnet daemon.

...default hosts.allow should deny remote telnet.

Peace.

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