On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:45:44 EDT, David Shaw said:
telnetd is not inherently bad. It is a tool that is lacking the session encryption and strong authentication features of SSH, but is
See RFCs 2941 through 2953. Just because your telnetd doesn't implement it doesn't mean it's not available.
True :) I should have said "usually lacking".
Having said that, I still use ssh for most stuff. ;)
Oh, so do I. I was just pointing out while SSH is a wonderful thing, for certain specific uses (logging in from an untrusted terminal being one of them), there are better tools. David -- David Shaw | dshaw@jabberwocky.com | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson