From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 14:38:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BECB1559C for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:38:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20002; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:34:23 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:34:23 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: "Daniel J. Wharton" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling Telnet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Daniel J. Wharton wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can prevent users from > telneting in without disabling FTP access as well. I want people to be > able to FTP in and update their websites, but not be able to TELNET in. > > I already tried setting their shell to /sbin/nologin, but that disables > FTP access as well. Thank you very much in advance for any advice. You could comment out the telnetd entry in /etc/inetd.conf, but that will restrict you to console logins and connected terminals. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message