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From: Mike Pelletier <mpelletier@ofgw.ntt.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: telnet security
Date: 4 Aug 1994 12:21:23 -0400
Organization: National TechTeam, Inc., Dearborn, Michigan, USA
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In article <Ctq4MK.Kps@taligent.com>, Logan Shaw <logan@taligent.com> wrote:
>
>I'm going to state the obvious here and say...
>
> touch /etc/nologin
>
>It's certainly better than reconfiguring inetd and all that. It does
>nothing about ftp, though.
It's only obvious on BSD-derived systems where that file is implemented.
If you happen to be on a HP 9000/735 running HP/UX 9.0.3... :-)
Of course, I seem to recall that the original poster was on a BSD system,
so that's definitely a good point for him.
-Mike Pelletier.