Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-17 Thread woody
Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Huh? telnet -l user host ? Where's the difference to ssh -l user host ? > Sure, telnet user@host doesn't work, so what? Learn something new everyday. :-) > > Other than that, I have nothing to ask. Quite a good short intro, Woody! Thanks, Woody ([EMAIL PROT

Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Woody Green am Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:13:45PM -0700: > Homepage: http://www.openssh.com/ > > In short, ssh works similar to telnet. The difference is that with > telnet, you feed the login name at a prompt. With ssh, you give the Huh? telnet -l user host ? Where's the difference

Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Mark Weaver am Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:37:28AM -0500: > Wouldn't it just be enough to close port 23 with IP chains? I like to leave > myself a "just-in-case" entry if one or the other stops working for what ever > reason so I can be sure to be able to get into my box should I need to.

Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
Wouldn't it just be enough to close port 23 with IP chains? I like to leave myself a "just-in-case" entry if one or the other stops working for what ever reason so I can be sure to be able to get into my box should I need to. I have to telnet port closed to all traffice except on IP address for

Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-13 Thread James Sparenberg
Can I just add these two things Be sure and comment out Telnet in either inetd.conf or in xinetd.d you'd be suprised how many boxes with ssh installed still have telnet running. Second comment out the services for telnet in /etc/services. In fact commnet out everything you don't use w

Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-13 Thread Mark Weaver
Thanks everyone for the info. I've got ssh running on both my workstation and home PC and can connect securely now and that makes me feel a bit better then having everything on an open channel. thanks -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharin

Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-10 Thread Woody Green
Homepage: http://www.openssh.com/ In short, ssh works similar to telnet. The difference is that with telnet, you feed the login name at a prompt. With ssh, you give the login name on the command line. (ssh user@host) ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you omit the username (ssh deathstar.empire.com

Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-10 Thread Mike MacCana
Openssh.org, as well as linux.com can provide you with some good guides. Mark Weaver wrote: > I've been looking for info on how to get started with ssh, but I can't > seem to find any anywhere. could someone give me a hand and get me > started? > > thanks, > > -- > Mark > > "If you don't share y

[expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-10 Thread Mark Weaver
I've been looking for info on how to get started with ssh, but I can't seem to find any anywhere. could someone give me a hand and get me started? thanks, -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."