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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:43:42 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: telnet
Message-ID:  <20011031134342.C246@gohan.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <000501c161d6$21529380$0f00a8c0@alexus>; from ml@db.nexgen.com on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:34:44AM -0500
References:  <000501c161d6$21529380$0f00a8c0@alexus>

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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:34:44AM -0500, alexus wrote:
> can i allow only certain users to use telnet

Change the permissions on /usr/bin/telnet to 550, put all users who
you want to allow to use it into one group, and change the ownership
of /usr/bin/telnet to that group.

> and all other will have to use ssh only?

But that does not stop someone from copying a telnet executable to
their home directory and using that.

If you set up a firewall on the machine,

  # ipfw pass tcp from any to any 23 out gid <telnet-group>
  # ipfw deny tcp from any to any 23 out

So that only the "telnet-group" can try to reach the usual telnet port
on remote machines.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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