Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:49:00 +0100 From: Alex <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: Stanley Chan <stan@cyberec.com>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re[2]: how to restrict the telnet Message-ID: <7417229003.20020324174900@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020324044524.G32288-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020324044524.G32288-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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Hello Peter, Sunday, March 24, 2002, 10:49:39 AM, you wrote: PL> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Stanley Chan wrote: >> Dear sir, I am using the FreeBSD 4.3 to run my webserver. Can you >> tell me how can I restrict anyone telnet to my machine except me. You can use a firewall for this, if you are ok with on machine basis. (man ipfw or man ipf) On a site note: Please set you mailer to break your lines somewhere near 72 char per line. PL> You could run the daemon (binary, application) known as telnetd or have it PL> run itself on-demand via inetd (type `man inetd` for more information) but PL> you must be aware, telnet is not very secure. At all. ;) If you are on a local intranet and you trust you users the securty lack of telnet will not be much of an issue. -- Best regards, Alex mailto:freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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