Re: [FW1] telnet banners

["Tim Holman" <tim_holman@FW1-NOSPAMhotmail.com>]

If you're taking telnet security seriously, you should have disabled it by now and gone with a secure shell, or at least modified the rulebase so telnet is only accessible from a chosen management GUI somewhere on the inside.

Modify /etc/inetd.conf and put a -h after the telnetd command.  This should strip the banner off completely (it does in full versions of BSD, anyway!).

 

Tim

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: jerry.atchley@rci.com

To: fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com

Sent: 21 March 2001 17:33

Subject: [FW1] telnet banners

I have a Nokia IP440 Firewall appliance.  Is there anyway to turn off the default telnet banner?
Right now it states    "IPSO  firewall name"
I would like to change it or delete it is possible.

Thanks.

Jerry Atchley

Sr. Network Security Administrator
RCI Global Technology Group/Security Ops
RCI, LLC

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