On Thursday 04 January 2007 18:11, Rick Lutowski wrote: > Graeme Fowler wrote: > > Renaud was using the telnet client application on his machine to talk to > > the Exim SMTP server on yours. There's no evidence of a telnet server > > existing on your server, but you can betcha someone would already have > > got you if there was :) > > Which is why telnet, ftp, etc is not running! > > Is there any way to disable the kind of access he > demonstrated without compromising normal exim > operation?
Well, he talked SMTP, which is what you're supposed to talk to Exim, so you
can't disable that, but you can prevent the kind of abuse he demonstrated.
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