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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Services
Obsolete Services
Telnet
Disable telnet Service
Disable telnet Service
An XCCDF Rule
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Disable telnet Service
High Severity
Make sure that the activation of the
telnet
service on system boot is disabled. The
telnet
socket can be disabled with the following command:
$ sudo systemctl mask --now telnet.socket