- Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 18:59
- Linux, Server hardening
For better hardened Linux box especially for web servers,you need to disable the telnet service as telnet simply send the username and passwords in clear text.
Login to your server as root
Open file telnet in /etc/xinetd.d
vi /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
edit the following line and make it yes instead of no.
disable=yes
And restart the xinetd service
service xinetd restart
In order to avoid telnet starting on boot time,turn it of ...
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