Hi. I would say shut down the telnetd and make sure it doesn't start by editing /etc/inetd.conf. That way nobody has telnet access at all. The exception would be if the user has access to the physical machine. In other words, a neighbor. On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > HMM, You learn something new every day. I was not aware of that. Thanks for > the tidbit. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 4:22 AM > Subject: Re: ftp and shell access > > > > This is a particularly bad idea. > > /bin/false is actually part of the GNU shell utilities > > and does nothing, silently and returns a non-zero exit code. > > It is a utility called from shell scripts so making a shellscript called > /bin/false > > that generates output will cause various things to fail noisily > > and unpredictably. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
