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How to disable Telnet and Other Unused Service

April 29th, 2012 Leave a comment Go to comments

How to disable Telnet and Other Unused Service

Steps:

1. Login to server as root

2. vi /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
// OR

3. vi /etc/xinetd.d/krb5-telnet
look for lines disable=no and change to disable=yes

4. chkconfig telnet off

5. service xinetd restart

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