Telnet server
Karsten Hopp
karsten at redhat.com
Wed Nov 30 18:01:31 UTC 2005
Hallo !
Sie schrieben am Donnerstag, den 01. Dezember 2005:
>
>
> >Because on some of the windows boxes in my college there is no putty or
> >ssh client...
>
> Maybe u should get them to download putty. Telnet isnt that secure. Anyway,
> just start up the telnet daemon and it should be fine
>
So you want to connect to your computer at home from a public computer
at the college via telnet ? I wouldn't recommend doing that even with ssh
just in case someone installed a keyboard sniffer on that machine.
Transmitting clear-text passwords with telnet just asks for trouble.
Karsten
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