Re: Telnet question

From: Daytona (daytona_usa_at_SpamSuX.yahoo.com)
Date: 07/10/03 

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:04:51 -0700

Christopher Browne wrote:
> Daytona <daytona_usa@SpamSuX.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>I have a odd question on setting up the telnetd on a RH 7.3 box...
>>
>>I want to deny telnet access to everyone on my system, and I want them
>>to use SSH instead. However, I do NOT want to close the telnet port
>>since if I close that port, the users will see a "Connection refused"
>>message on connecting. What I want to do instead is leave the port
>>open, setup a message in /etc/issue.net to tell the users to switch to
>>SSH (The message is displayed BEFORE the login prompt), then
>>disconnect the user (without showing the login prompt).
>>
>>Is is possible that I can do such things?
>
>
> I'd expect that the right idea would be to write up a script that
> prints out the desired message, and set up /etc/inet.conf to invoke
> that for the telnet service...

Thanks Chris and Job. Actually I have a hard time believing the answer
is so straight-forward and simple...heh

Thanks,
Daytona

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