[PLUG] disabling telnet login

Matt Hoover matt@Hoov.Net
Wed, 2 Feb 2000 23:18:17 -0500 (EST)


Not to seem silly, but you must make sure and do a 'kill -HUP inetd', then
the changes should go into affect.  But I am sure you did that right? :)
Just checkin..

Matt

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, James C. Lewis wrote:

> 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.
> 
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