> From: John Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:25:32 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: Re: Newbie questions: openssh1 to openssh2
> To: SSH Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > but if telnet is used ssh becomes useless.
> >
> Exactly, so how do I *force* (i.e. convince it is a 'good thing') our
> users to use ssh without actually deleting the telnet command? Telnet is
> still used for simple testing - e.g. "We can't send any mail"; the admin
> simply initially uses 'telnet <host> 25' to see what happens. Hence telnet as
> a command is still required, and if it is there then the users are probably
> going to use 'telnet host' rather than 'ssh host'. They *may* get used to
> using ssh, but as always there will be some who don't or take a long time in
> converting.
You don't delete the telnet command. You comment out the line in inetd.conf that
spawns telnetd on a telnet connection, and also, hopefully, block the telnet port at
the router or even on the machine itself. Then you can still "telnet somehost 25" or
"telnet somehost 80".
Make sure your users have a decent ssh client for the platform(s) they use, and they
will not see a difference between ssh and telnet, and you can sleep better at night.
:):)
David McCabe Unix System Administrator
Le Groupe Videotron [EMAIL PROTECTED] (514) 380 4433
I live in Quebec, ...
Where the legal drinking age is just a suggestion
From "IamnotCanadian"
