RE: Re: Re: open telnet port

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

Yep, call-back modem is a very good idea. But we are sliding OT. =)

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[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Volker
Tanger
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:18 AM
To: ktabic
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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Re: open telnet port

Greetings!

> > > getting rid of telnetd is almost always a very good idea.
> >
> > Are there even any legitimate uses for running a telnet daemon any
> [...]   need a backup system to get into the server in
> the event that something goes wrong?

Install an out-band management access, e.g. via encrypted call-back
modem. This can be easily achieved via standard mgetty and inittab. This
way you have a (serial) console working if the network has gone sour -
something that can quite easily happen if managing remote firewalls... 
;-)

Bye

Volker Tanger
ITK Security

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