On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 02:19:31AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:52:29PM -0500, Vinh Truong wrote: > > * Jean-Marc Boursot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010406 21:09]: > > > They allow telnet and not ssh? Nice! > > > > yeah, afraid of the port-forwarding capabilities in ssh. i can see > > their point but i'm just as leery of clear-text transmission. oh, well. > > > > Port forwarding works in ssh no matter what door you run it on. For instance: > > ssh -p 666
People that know how to run ssh through a non-standard port are probably less likely to set up anything stupid with port forwarding than the average semi-clued user who only barely knows how to use ssh. Don't know if that has anything to do with the decision... -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
