Gaddis, Jeremy L. wrote: > On 12/20/06, sylvan dacounha <sylvan_2804 at yahoo.com> wrote: >> I have newly installed Redhat 9 and i have found that i can telnet >> as root which i would not want. >> >> I want to disble telnet for root . > > "man securetty" > Telnet is obsolete and insecure. You should start using ssh.