Blocking connections from telnet

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Mar 8 18:06:01 UTC 2004


Jim Hayward wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 21:09, Kligh Darsono wrote:
> 
>>how to deny 2nd connection from telnet-client, this
>>mean that one pc can only have one telnet connections.
> 
> 
> Edit the file, /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and add the line... 
> 
> instances = 1
> 
> Then restart xinetd with... service xinetd restart

Yes, and STOP USING TELNET unless you want your system to get hacked.
Use ssh instead.
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