From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 12 8:52:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.psn.net (saturn.psn.net [207.211.58.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3129814CA5; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 08:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: from shadow.blackdawn.com (5042-243.008.popsite.net [209.224.140.243]) by saturn.psn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA25556; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 08:57:46 -0700 (MST) Received: (from will@localhost) by shadow.blackdawn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA99262; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:51:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from will) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:51:13 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: Will Andrews From: Will Andrews To: Will Andrews Subject: Re: How to prevent motd including os info Cc: "Jeremy L. Ramirez" , dev-null@ns1.digicomsystems.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Ben Smithurst Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ack, err, sorry.. On 12-Sep-99 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. I'm still amazed that some people still use telnet to any extent. ssh+RSA Authentication forever.. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message