Re: [cobalt-users] Disable telnet for server

["Graeme Fowler" <graeme.f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim wrote:
> Are there any known or perceived problems with disabling telnet for
the
> entire server?
> I don't allow clients shell access and make every effort to stay out
of it
> myself.

Good idea. Telnet is A Bad Thing (plain text passwords 'in the clear'),
so you should really turn it off permanently.
There is one gotcha though: what do you do if the web server fails? You
then have no access to the machine at all...

If you require shell access at any point, consider putting OpenSSH on
the machine instead. That way you have a nice encrypted service which
you can leave switched on but configure so that only you can login to
it. And if the webserver fails... you can still get in to restart it.

HTH

Graeme