Basically SSH and SSH2 are protcols, and within the specs of these
protocols anything that is TX or RX is first encrypted then decrypted at
the other side. If someone is running a packet sniffer on your LAN,
they can easily grab your username/password to any system any user on
the lan that telnet/ftp/check email to/on, they can view anything you or
anyother user on the lan sends or someone sends you, which sucks. With
SSH and SSH2 all they can get is a bunch of meaningless garbage filling
up there hard drive space.
Even if you lan is %100 secure you telnet to a computer out side you
lan, someone running a sniffer on that lan, can also grab a decent
amount of info on you.
You do need a special server/cleint programs to use it. telnet will not
work with a server running /only/ ssh or ssh2. It is also avaible for
ftp to, so you send your ftp username/password also encrypted.
You can do everything with ssh that you can do with telnet. pico or any
other editor /should/ work fine.
I also did some searching and there isn't really any information I found
on installing it. I know there /might/ be some issues with using it in
a commerical envoriment and licensing agreements, for non-commerical use
it is free. The protcols are open and anyone can build a server or
cleint that conforms to these specs, I know there is a GPL version of
SSH, but not sure how far along it is at this point.
One document I found was http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/ which
is a FAQ to the first version of SSH. I am still working on installing
it my self, so if you need any info on installing or setup I won't be
able to give any usefull infomatin on that aspect of it.
Also if you do a search on freshmeat.net for SSH2 it will bring up a
commerical program, they have /some/ documents on it. I still haven't
found the /GOLDEN/ document(s) on it yet.
Hope that helps.
michael jones wrote:
>
> hello all, have ya missed me (yeah right ;)
> anyway,
> i am going to be working on a website that is being hosted
> by a service that doesn't use telnet, but will use "secure ssh"
> instead. i wasn't familiar with it and they said it is a secure
> form of telnet. does anyone use it? will i need a special client,
> app, to use it? or will i use my regular telnet, except connecting
> to a different port with a special script? i want to being able to
> log in and use pico, or other simple editor, to edit the pages remotely
> instead of ftp'ing them back and forth all the time. they said
> that it can be done using secure ssh. this is new to me.
>
> i did some searches on freshmeat, etc but didn't find anything
> that clearly explained it. hoping someone on the list might offer
> some direction.
>
> thanx for your help,
> --
> michael.jones {
> erleichda.archiving; usa
> }
> newbie faq: http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs/
