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Originally Posted by larrysstyle
Can anyone help me figure out how to disable Telnet? I want to disable it and replace it with Ssh. Just not sure how to go about it.
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Hi Larry.. follow these steps to disable telnet on your server:
- SSH into server and login as root.
- At shell command prompt type the following command and press Enter. This example use pico to edit text file, you can use vi or other text editor if you want. pico -w /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
- Locate the following line: disable = no
Change the “disable = no” to “disable = yes” (no to yes). - Save and exit.
- Restart the inetd service by using the following command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
- Turn off Telnet through chkconfig as well because it can still start through that: /sbin/chkconfig telnet off
Do get back if you come across any obstacles
