Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:19:36 -0500 From: "Jeremy L. Ramirez" <jramirez@digicomsystems.net> To: dev-null@ns1.digicomsystems.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to prevent motd including os info Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990911151659.00aa8d60@ns1.digicomsystems.net>
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Another way to prevent users from seeing what type of OS you are running is by
changing the following line in inetd.conf:
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd -h
what you are doing is adding the -h at the end of the line which prevents
a user from seeing the OS before even logging in.
Jeremy Ramirez
At 12:27 PM 09/11/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>Please would somebody tell me how to prevent motd including the OS version
>and the kernel name. On my 3.2 box editing the lines out of /etc/motd just
>leads to them being replaced
>
>Patrick Mackeown
>
>
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>>Set update_motd="NO" in rc.conf, and it will be left alone.
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