check to see if telnet is running

[Theoyster]

I am running osx 10.4

I have all services turned off in the firewall pane. I read somewhere that telnet is available on the system but doesn't show up in the GUI.

Is there a way for me to see if telnet is running and/or disable it permanently for security purposes?

 

[miles01110]

Launch Terminal.

Type

ps auxc | grep telnet

If it's running you'll get a line that looks something like

user 2086   0.0  0.0    75524    728 s000  S+    6:12PM   0:00.01 telnet

If it's not running you'll just get another prompt.

 

[jpyc7]

You could also try telnetting to your box from another system. Or even locally from a Terminal. This is what I get:

administrators-macbook-pro: jpyc7$ telnet localhost
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying fe80::1...
telnet: connect to address fe80::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

This only proves that the normal telnet port (25) does not have a listener.