From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 12:24:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (sdf.lonestar.org [209.221.165.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1DA37B417 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:24:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBHKNn111023; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:23:49 GMT Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:23:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Rakesh Prajapati To: Subject: How to allow ssh only remotely (and deny telnet remotely) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi , Thanks guys , who responded with my earlier Q "Cant log in remotely as ROOT" Now that ssh is a secure way of logging in , how to deny telnet access to the system remotely. As ssh uses port 22 and telnet uses port 23 , do I just need to disable port 23. Pls advice as to is this a good/right way of doing it. Thanks Rakesh rprajapa@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message