Re: [LIH] block telnet

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Suresh Ramasubramanian spewed into the ether: >> How do I give telnet
> access to only selected users??? > >Edit /etc/passwd (using vipw) and
> give only those users you want >access to the shell by setting their
> shell to /bin/bash (default >anyway). How about using TCPWrappers
> instead?

Likely, but vipw is a "quick and dirty" plus more or less foolproof way
imho.



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