From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 8:49:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp07.wxs.nl (smtp07.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C393A37B417 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from Alex ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp07.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GTHLDU00.ECL; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:49:06 +0100 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:49:00 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <7417229003.20020324174900@dds.nl> To: Peter Leftwich Cc: Stanley Chan , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re[2]: how to restrict the telnet In-Reply-To: <20020324044524.G32288-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020324044524.G32288-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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