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Date:      Fri, 22 Aug 1997 09:05:27 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        John Brown <jbrown@vafibre.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Remote Administration
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970822090407.308F-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199708211451.000005B1@intra.vafibre.com>

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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, John Brown wrote:

>  I am setting up an ISP server running FreeBSD and would like to deny all
> shell access to my server but keep myself a way to get into the server for
> remote administration. Any ideas on the best way to accomplish this?

Disable telnet, rlogin, rexec, rsh services in /etc/inetd.conf, and 
install ssh (cd /usr/ports/security/ssh; make ; make install)

In practice, of course, you'll want to install ssh before you disable 
telnet :-)

Danny



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