How to Secure your Server :: Disable Telnet

Telnet is a very unsecure protocol and passes passwords in plain text, you should disable this - but only do so after you have setup SSH and it works afterwards.

Things You'll Need

• SSH Access
• SSH Client

Instructions

1. SSH into server and login as root.

2. At command prompt type: pico -w /etc/xinetd.d/telnet

3. change disable = no to disable = yes

4. Save and Exit

5. At command prompt type: /etc/init.d/xinetd restart