Hi
Telnet was designed when there used to be a single line for a single connection.
No danger of sniffing and hacking. Clearly it's not the best solutions to run
over TCP/IP streams.
If you are dialing up, use ssh instead, it's easy to set up and very good. No
fear to be root over ssh... :-))
HTH
Bye
Shridhar
Neeraj Manral wrote:
> I want to log on to my linux box from my home .?
> My queries are
> How safe is telnet .some people knowing unix have advised me not to use
> telnet as it is vulnerable to hacking .Though i dont have any important
> doc/secrets in my pc but still is it possible that some one can tap the
> passwords that i type to log in for loging in .I log on to my local isp and
> telnet my pc.
> Is there any safe way that can be used to log in from a remote location .I
> am more concerned about the superuser password.
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