[ILUG] Fixing Telnet Vulnerability on RH7.0

John A. Kinsella John.Kinsella at ul.ie
Fri May 25 13:31:00 IST 2001


Hi.
Thanks to several people for clarifying setup for ssh2.
I can now ssh2 in from home.

Now how do I prevent bad guys from exploiting telnet vulnerability on my
work box?

I have disabled telnet & (wu-)ftp in /etc/xinetd.d/ & restarted xinitd.
Should I zap anything else?

Thanks,

John

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