On 29 Jun 00, at 23:46, Atul Mehta wrote:
> I have a doubt about the feasibility of running finger, telnet
> etc. on a web-server. I think that it can be risky since finger can be
> used to get info abt the users of the server and also telnet etc. has
> security problems unless ssh extensions are there..
You are right, these daemons are best removed. Even with ssh, I see
no reason why you should run telnet on a webservers. Servers
connected to the internet should have only the bare minimum running.
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