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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Telnet Server
Date: 19 Feb 2001 14:27:51 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <3A911564.8B2965B7@exit109.com>,
Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@exit109.com> wrote:
: atlantis191@yahoo.com wrote:
: >
: > I have seen telnet servers that allow people to log onto linux systems
: > via telnet. How can this be done using Caldera openlinux 2.4?
: >
: I strongly suggest not allowing people to telnet into your machine
: using telnet because it is too easy for people to sniff everything
: going through the link, including passwords, especially the root
: password if someone outside knows it (such you when you are
: elsewhere than at the console). I recommend using some version of
: ssh instead (I use openSSH).
:
Sending passwords in the clear is obviously unsafe. From this it does
not follow that Telnet is bad and SSH is good. SSH is not without its
pitfalls, risks, and drawbacks, and Telnet is available in secure
versions. See:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/telnetd.html
- Frank