From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 18: 8:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF16C37B795 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp1.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.16]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id DAA24690 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:07:25 +0200 (GMT) Received: (qmail 12489 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Apr 2000 01:09:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 04:09:54 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: James Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change the telnet and uname output Message-ID: <20000407040954.B11782@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jkelty@digital-impact.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 05:29:21PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 05:29:21PM -0700, James wrote: > How do I change the STDOUT uname and initial telnet output? i.e., just > by telneting to my machine, people can tell what it is. I would rather > have some sort of customized message. Can anyone help? Security through obscurity won't save you much. Oh, and disabling telnet altogether is usually a good idea, if you hate it that others might know what you're running by using it. Use ssh instead :) Ciao, - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message