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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
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Subject: Re: FTP versus Telnet connect
Date: 11 Aug 1998 22:16:46 GMT
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In article <w0mg1f31f0u.fsf@xenon.stanford.edu>,
Thomas Wu <tjw@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
: charlie@pc.antipope.org (Charlie Stross) writes:
: >
: > [ snip -- client runs an ftpd on their firewall, but not telnetd ]
: >
: > Have you considered trying to convince your client to run some kind
: > of secure connection, like ssh or rlogin with something like Kerberos
: > authentication or DES encryption? Kermit will work over rlogin (though
:
: Kermit already supports SRP for authentication and encryption on the
: Telnet side; making this work for FTP might be an excellent option. This
: would integrate cleanly with ftpd and doesn't require any additional
: configuration on the firewall end.
Although, Kermit is not an FTP client. And that is the problem that
the user is struggling with.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org