From: Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@idiom.com)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 13:12:22 MDT
Apparently Lee Daniel Crocker writes:
> Telnet defunct? That's a surprize to me--
I used to use vi and telnet also, but I have switched from relying
on telnet to relying on ssh because telnet has the fatal flaw of
transmitting passwords in the clear. The password is sent one
letter per packet, but with a good filtering packet sniffer, it is
not so difficult to reassemble the packets.
ssh is available from ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/
If you're not a security expert, get ssh1 instead of ssh2, as
there are some interoperability hassles between the two and ssh1
is still much more popular. (The machine you are trying to reach
will need to be running sshd, the secure shell daemon, but most
professional sysadmins do so nowadays because they don't want
their boxes cracked any more than you want your account
cracked.)
-- Eric Watt Forste <arkuat@pobox.com>
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