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[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 06 May 2007, Manney wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 06 May 2007, Manney wrote:
>>> Dan Olson wrote:
>>>> I'm still fighting figuring out how to enable telnet and ftp in
>>>> Debian, this stuff used to be pretty simple (not to mentioned
>>>> enabled by default) in the past.
>>>
>>> I'll ask the obvious. Did you install proftpd? I have mine as a
>>> standalone, and have been using proftpd since I switched from
>>> RedHat -> Mandrake -> Debian. So around 1998 - 1999?
>>>
>>> I've never had to telnet in to any of my machines, so I'm going to
>>> play to see if I can get it to work...
>>>
>>> Okay, there are packages called telnetd and telnetd-ssl. I
>>> installed telnetd and it worked without any configuration.
>>
>> But, telnet is also pretty insecure, Manny.  I don't think, since my
>> original install of rh5.1, that I've ever enabled a telnet server on
>> any of my boxes.
>
>I thought I heard something about the insecurity of telnet. I've
>uninstalled telnetd. Thanks for the heads up.
>
>> Use the Secure SHell, aka ssh, for such duties.  One of the security
>> mechanisms there is that not only does the comm between the machines
>> become encrypted, each machine will generate its own identifier hash
>> so that the other machine will recognize it again.
>
>ssh is what I normally use for my machines.
>
>...
>
>> X can also be exported over this ssh channel, so that an xwindow
>> based program can be run, and its output displayed on your screen
>> just as if it was running locally on your machine, but that takes a
>> little more setup on both machines to do.
>
>That's setup as well. :) I love it when I have to work with my wife's
>computer. It beats most other choices other than VNC. (Which my wife's
>computer's implementation is currently broke.
>
>-M.

Well, I wondered when i wrote that if I was carrying coal to Newcastle. :)

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