Re: Telnet Security

2000-05-22 Thread kmself
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? Disable your network connection. The general answer is no, ssh should be used instead. There is also a telnet-ssl secure mode, though I haven't used it. On the very

Telnet Security

2000-05-20 Thread Jay Kelly
Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security?

Re: Telnet Security

2000-05-20 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:05 PM 5/19/00 -0700, Jay Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? No. At least not *good* security. Never tell me the odds!--- Ray Olszewski-- Han Solo Palo

Re: Telnet Security

2000-05-20 Thread Kent West
Jay Kelly wrote: Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? Telnet is inherently insecure because it doesn't encrypt communication going across the wire, particularly passwords. That's why the world is migrating to SSH. Using TCP Wrappers you can tighten the security

Re: Telnet Security

2000-05-20 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? I just went through this. I installed ssh on my linux box removed telnet. If you're connecting from a windows box to your linux box, get puTTY for windows. fred

RE: Telnet Security

2000-05-20 Thread Jay Kelly
: Friday, May 19, 2000 11:57 PM To: Debian User List Subject: Re: Telnet Security On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? I just went through this. I installed ssh on my linux box removed telnet. If you're

Re: Telnet Security

2000-05-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? sure, in /etc/ssh/sshd_config change: Port 22 to Port 23 ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpiQaynuNaSe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Telnet Security

2000-05-20 Thread John Bagdanoff
To: Debian User List Subject: Re: Telnet Security On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? I just went through this. I installed ssh on my linux box removed telnet. If you're connecting from a windows box

Re: Telnet Security

2000-05-20 Thread Brian Clark
John Bagdanoff said: On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:03:04AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Someone told me about security key but I cant remeber the web page where to download them. I guess you need to have a key installed on the remote pc that matches the server key. Anybody know what Im talking about?

Re: Telnet Security

2000-05-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:17:23AM -0400, Brian Clark wrote: John Bagdanoff said: If you use the authentication type RSA in conjunction with SSH instead of authentication type password, you'll need to exchange keys with the host for it to be able to authenticate you. If I understand

Telnet security

2000-05-20 Thread Umum Wijoyo
The previous discussion on Telnet security interested me. I would thus like to ask: How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? How do you set-up ssh to work? I'm afraid I've been thinking that ssh was already working on my Linux box, but actually it wasn't...??? :-p

Re: Telnet security

2000-05-20 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? Not totally sure, but whilst you're in, running ps should show a process named sshd. How do you set-up ssh to work? Assuming you have debian, run: for the client # apt-get update; apt-get install ssh and the daemon

Re: Telnet security

2000-05-20 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 06:14 PM 5/20/00 +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote: The previous discussion on Telnet security interested me. I would thus like to ask: How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? You don't. ssh is a different service from telnet, more or less a drop-in replacement for rsh

Re: Telnet security

2000-05-20 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:31 PM 5/20/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote [in part]: How do you set-up ssh to work? Assuming you have debian, run: for the client # apt-get update; apt-get install ssh and the daemon # apt-get update; apt-get install sshd Did you check this? According to apt-cache search ssh (running on

Re: Telnet security

2000-05-20 Thread Sven Burgener
for the client # apt-get update; apt-get install ssh and the daemon # apt-get update; apt-get install sshd Did you check this? According to apt-cache search ssh (running on potato), there is no sshd package. My memory says that ssh installs both the server (daemon) and the client of OpenSSH.

Re: Telnet security

2000-05-20 Thread Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union
When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install update), I get an error message saying that there is no available version, but the package exists in the database. What's up with that? # apt-get install ssh Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

Re: Telnet security

2000-05-20 Thread Ray Olszewski
You need an entry in /etc/apt/sources.list for a non-US distribution site. Remember: those nasty US crypto-as-munitions export rules haven't actually ended yet! At 09:44 AM 5/20/00 -0700, Miguel Wooding wrote [in part]: When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install

Re: Telnet security

2000-05-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Miguel! On Sat, 20 May 2000, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote: When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install update), I get an error message saying that there is no available version, but the package exists in the database. What's up with that? my