Re: Secure Shell on the 400

Errr...  I know how to turn off the telnet daemon on FreeBSD.   But I
have programs on my AS/400 that log on to my FreeBSD machine using
Telnet (I have some home-grown software that acts something like an
expect script).   So I can't turn off telnet into the BSD box until
the AS/400 supports an SSH client... that's where I was going with this.

In other words, I wasn't wondering how to turn off telnet, but how to
replace it with SSH when the AS/400 needs to be a client.

Not sure why you think that this is off-topic.  It's about the OS/400
supporting SSH which is certainly midrange-related!


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, James Rich wrote:
>
> I have telnet turned off on all my internet-accessible unix boxen.  We
> have to allow telnet to be routed, though.  And you can turn off incoming
> telnet on FreeBSD using hosts.allow/hosts.deny.  You can even doublely
> (sp?) disable it if you have a stateful firewall for FreeBSD.  On second
> thought you don't need a statefull firewall - just block incoming packets
> to port 23.  You can also comment the telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf.
> Heck, go ahead and delete /sbin/telnetd if you want.  You don't need any
> of these things to use tn5250 or telnet to the AS/400.
>
> Now I really am off topic to this list.  Sorry folks.
>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
>