On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:14, Michael D. Viron wrote:
> > I opened the installer and searched for telnet in
> >the "installable" area. There is nothing anymore, since I
> >have installed already. Same for CVS, everything is installed.
>
> There are two packages that must be installed for bi-directional telnet:
> telnet and telnet-server. CVS must be installed for cvs. This, of course,
> is fine if your machine is behind a firewall, which blocks cvs and telnet
> access to everything behind it. If it isn't, I would seriously consider
> piping cvs over ssh, which is encrypted. There are howtos which can be
> found via google.
Why are you using telnet? It is a MASSIVE security risk, since it sends
cleartext (unencrypted) passwords. OpenSSH can do everything that telnet can,
plus it is very secure.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
