Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:19:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dev-null@ns1.digicomsystems.net, "Jeremy L. Ramirez" <jramirez@digicomsystems.net> Subject: Re: How to prevent motd including os info Message-ID: <XFMail.990912111958.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> In-Reply-To: <19990912012524.B41509@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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