ftp and shell access

[Igor Gueths]

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.
> >
>
>
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