From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 25 15:10: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from wasabi.sushigoth.com (dsl081-059-169.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.59.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA0C37B403 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:09:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@antepenultimate.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost) by wasabi.sushigoth.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6PM3bJ05306; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:03:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:03:37 -0700 (PDT) From: bob X-X-Sender: To: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hallstr=F6m?= Cc: bob , FreeBSD Security Subject: Re: Telnet exploit & 3.4-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010725234729.04b4b160@students.su.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry, I should have mentioned that about a dozen of my friends use this machine for mail and such, so i need to provide telnet access for them. Many connect from machines where installing an ssh client isn't possible. --bob On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Markus [iso-8859-1] Hallstr=F6m wrote: > At 14:23 2001-07-25 -0700, bob wrote: > >What is the best way for me to secure my 3.4-Release machine from the > >recent telnetd exploit? =2E.. > > Disable telnet in inetd and start using ssh would be a good workaround > > /TUBBS > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message