[PLUG] disabling telnet login

James C. Lewis jclewis@purdue.edu
Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:31:17 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, peter wrote:

> that's odd, i tried that before and i couldn't telnet into my machine, but
> it worked this time.. <scratches head>

If you remove telnetd from inetd.conf that disables telnet entirely.  You
can't telnet to yourself, because you have telnet disabled.


-James C. Lewis
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