Re: telnet

[Richard Rager <redhat-list actech net>]

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Gary Neff wrote:

> I recently did something very stupid and deleted nobody from my user list
> and of course had to rebuild entire linux box (ver 5 ) anyway I did this
> because I am getting a lot of attempts at login from remote locations and
> this is very odd as I utilize a dynamic ip for a small LAN in my house
> (about 4 computers). Anyway to my question in one of my earlier posts
> someone told me how to turn off remote access and I lost the letter can
> anyone please share the command so I can shut down the telnet. I do not call
> in remote and am amazed at all the folks who want to telnet to my little
> LAN.
> 


   I do not know if is a command but this will work.

edit /etc/inetd.conf

put a # if front of this line:

telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.telnetd

then type:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start

Enjoy,

Richard