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Turning Off telnet

Question & Answer


Question

Customer would like to disable telnet sessions to a server.

Answer

Turning Off telnet


Environment

AIX Version independent
  1. Using your preferred editor, edit the file /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the line beginning with telnet.
  2. Refresh the inetd services. Enter:
    refresh -s inetd
    

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isg1pTechnote1314

Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

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