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I dont want to disable all telnet, just this user.

Actually I dont want to disturb password because the another app uses the same account to ftp to this server and changing password would mean changing it in multiple locations...big headache.

How do I search for telnet sessions? Even if I telnet to this system, ps -ef shows ssh pid but no telnet pid.

We have a generic user account "user1" setup on Solaris 8 that is used by an application. I dont want users to telnet/ssh using this account. Instead if they want to gain access, they must su or sudo...

Its Solaris 8 as I mentioned in the first post.

# svcprop -p defaults inetd
svcprop: not found

Thanks to everyone helping me out.

# inetadm -l telnet | grep tcp_wrappers
inetadm: not found

I tried kill -HUP and also reset the inetd...but doesnt help, I dont think this is the problem though.

I am still able to telnet from my host to server so hosts.deny is not working as expected.
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This is interesting but this useraccount can come from multiple IPs. Can I user forbiddenuser@ALL instead so as to capture all host IPs?

in.telnetd : forbiddenuser@hostIP

*** I actually tried ...

I will investigate hosts.deny but it looks like it controls settings for hosts/IPs connecting to the server and not user accounts already on the system.

Like I said, the user needs to retain a shell. Setting it to "false" doesnt serve my purpose.

I am curious what hosts.deny is, can you send me code for that file to disable a user?

On Solaris 8 is there anyway to disable telnet for a particular user and not for entire system altogether?

I would like the user to retain a shell and so creating a noshell like ftp account is...