Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!princeton!phoenix.Princeton.EDU!subbarao From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Limiting Telnet Access Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 13:45:10 GMT References: <27103@adm.brl.mil> <1991Jun4.230509.3655@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Reply-To: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) Organization: American Chemical Society Lines: 24 In article <1991Jun4.230509.3655@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jscott@isis.UUCP (James Scott) writes: > >Anyway, this is our solution: >1.) Make a group called 'telnet'. >2.) chgrp telnet /usr/bin/telnet . >3.) chmod o=,gu=rx /usr/bin/telnet . >4.) Edit your /etc/group file, adding the login names of users who > can use telnet into the last field seperated by commas. >5.) For someone to use telnet, they must first type the command Oh please. Didn't you ever think that people could *ftp* the telnet source, then compile it and run telnet themselves? -Kartik -- internet# adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/kmem < /dev/zero subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU -| Internet kartik@silvertone.Princeton.EDU (NeXT mail) SUBBARAO@PUCC.BITNET - Bitnet