[PLUG] disabling telnet login

peter pweber1@purdue.edu
Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:57:02 -0500 (EST)


yup, i did that, and i have it running ok, now.. thanks!

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Matt Hoover wrote:

> 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:
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> > 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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