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Created: Sep 15, 2003     Updated: Jan 08, 2004


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The default banner displayed during a telnet login contains the Solaris version which can be useful to a potential attacker.

Create a plain text file called /etc/default/telnetd which contains a line such as:

BANNER="Unauthorized access prohibited\n\n"


The \n characters encode blank lines.

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