On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 21:15, Kharnas, Simon wrote: > Hello, Mark. > > I am trying to limit the telnet logon from the outside world. I thought that > DENY and ALLOW files can limit that access, so that the outside (i.e. > Internet users) would not be able to logon to the server on a regular basis. > I still would like to allow the local users to access the host via telnet.
I would recommend using firewall rules rather than DENY/ALLOW as they are stronger protections. I'd recommend exterminating telnet entirely but providing you have total trust in anyone on your local lans, no wireless links and so on then its obviously easier to relax and not use encryption.
