Me You wrote...
> I am attempting to make my network more secure and
> after reading numerous how to's I decided to give SSH
> a try. A number of publications suggest closing most
> services such as telnet and ftp in the inetd.conf
> file. The problem is that when I do this, I am unable
> to connect with SSH. Do I need to have telnet open
> for SSH to work?? or is there a service that needs to
> be added here?? and where can I find information how
> to do it if needed??
You have 2 options.
1) run sshd in standalone mode by just starting up the daemon manually
root# /usr/local/sbin/sshd
Just be sure to make sure it's in your system startup scripts so that
next time you reboot it will get started automatically
2) run sshd out of inetd.
Add a line similait to this one to your /etc/inetd.conf file, and kill -HUP
the pid of inetd.
ssh stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/sshd /usr/local/sbin/sshd -i
Be sure to have the -i at the end of the second argument, that indicates
that ssh is running out of inetd and not in standalone.
You can also use tcp_wrappers with it as well, in which case you would use
this line in /etc/inetd.conf:
ssh stream tcp nowait root /path/to/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/sshd -i
--josh
