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From: Hector Colmenares <zips@zips.net>
To: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>,
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	"Jeremy L. Ramirez" <jramirez@digicomsystems.net>
Subject: Re: How to prevent motd including os info
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	If you dont want people to know what OS are you running 
	when they telnet into your box just change to this the  info in
	/etc/gettytab 

default:\
   :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n\%h\r\nAccess Restricted\
   r\n\r\nFor info, email admin@%h\r\nToday is %d\r\n\r\n


	;-)
 
cheers !!

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Will Andrews wrote:

> 
> On 12-Sep-99 Ben Smithurst wrote:
> > Jeremy L. Ramirez wrote:
> > 
> >> telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd -h
> >> 
> >> what you are doing is adding the -h at the end of the line which prevents
> >> a user from seeing the OS before even logging in.
> > 
> > An even better way is to disable telnet completely, and use ssh like you
> > should. Note that people can still use nmap or something to guess at
> > your OS.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ben Smithurst            | PGP: 0x99392F7D
> > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk |   key available from keyservers and
> >                          |   ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk
> > 
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