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Re: [cobalt-users] Closing port 23
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Closing port 23
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jan 8 10:18:01 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Tom Nelson wrote:
> Can anyone tell me the proper way to turn off the telnet port?
>
> I have disabled it in the GUI of my Raq3 w/Raq 4 OS...
>
> But I can still "telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25" and log in...
>
> I believe spammers may be using this to conduct business...
>
Make sure it is commented out in /etc/inetd.conf
then execute [ all on one line]
/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet stop; /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start
Gerald
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