Re: security

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maurice,

At 03:23 PM 5/21/97 +0200, you wrote:
>We have location connected by a router, cawin95, tcp/ip. We want for
>security practice that the users can not start a telnet session to the
>AS/400. They only have to be able to start a tcp/ip connection. Can I
>secure that on the AS/400 side?
If you don't want users to telnet, don't start the telnet server.  This is
true for any of the TCP/IP servers that you don't plan to use.  

If I mismember correctly, the command would be CHGTCPSVR, and you would
config telnet to not automatically start.

hth,

jte
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