From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 18:15:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from simon.digital-impact.com (simon.responsiblemail.net [216.32.177.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2B537BF01 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkelty@digital-impact.com) Received: from james (h-6-181.digital-impact.com [172.23.6.181] (may be forged)) by simon.digital-impact.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e371FIn18977 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:15:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "James" To: Subject: RE: How to change the telnet and uname output Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:14:53 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, but it still halps to know these things. Not a "security through obscurity" issue. Just want to know how to do it. BTW, I AM running ssh, but that doesn't mean I don't want to know how to turn off the annoying banners. Also, just so you can feel better an night, I am kicking people off the system with tcp wrappers when they try to telnet. Easier to know who is doing what, ya' see.... -James -----Original Message----- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:10 PM To: James Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change the telnet and uname output On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 05:29:21PM -0700, James wrote: > How do I change the STDOUT uname and initial telnet output? i.e., just > by telneting to my machine, people can tell what it is. I would rather > have some sort of customized message. Can anyone help? Security through obscurity won't save you much. Oh, and disabling telnet altogether is usually a good idea, if you hate it that others might know what you're running by using it. Use ssh instead :) Ciao, - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message