Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?ssh problem

2000-11-23 Thread Raghunath L
It is not running Neeraj Manral wrote: Neeraj Manral When i giv ethe command i get [neeraj@anamika /]$ ps -aux|grep ssh neeraj 21031 0.0 0.6 1148 388 ? S 10:55 0:00 grep ssh I think it means its running ... Regards neeraj... - Original Message

Re: grep curiosity Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?ssh problem

2000-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
sreangsu acharyya rearranged electrons thusly: On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: No - that's just your grep process which is running. (hint - try ps -aux|grep ssh|grep -v grep) Isnt it somewhat strange that when doing ps x | grep whatever the grep process

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?ssh problem

2000-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Neeraj Manral rearranged electrons thusly: Appologies for being a pest.How do u add sshd .any hints . Its not there ? Download ssh from http://www.openssh.com - compile and install it. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + mallet@efn.org You spamma my mailbox, I nukea da ass

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?ssh problem

2000-11-23 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi PCQ distrubuted it sometime back. Though it may be old version by now but anyway Bye Shridhar On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Neeraj Manral rearranged electrons thusly: Appologies for being a pest.How do u add sshd .any hints . Its not there ? Download

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?ssh problem

2000-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Shridhar Daithankar rearranged electrons thusly: PCQ distrubuted it sometime back. Though it may be old version by now but anyway 1.2 something I believe. Get yourself the latest openssh - there were some security holes in that old release I think. It is not too huge - a few

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?ssh problem

2000-11-23 Thread Neeraj Manral
Hello Appologies for being a pest.How do u add sshd .any hints . Its not there ? Regards.. neeraj -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr

RE: [LIH] telnet how safe ?

2000-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Neeraj Manral spewed into the ether: 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 snip Telnet and ftp are very unsafe :). They send passwords

[LIH] telnet how safe? ssh problem?

2000-11-22 Thread Neeraj Manral
sorry the subject was wrong it is related to telnet ssh From: Neeraj Manral [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [LIH] linux courses Hi When i use a ssh utility (telneat and putty )thro windows nt 4.0 to connect to my linux server

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?ssh problem

2000-11-22 Thread Neeraj Manral
Neeraj Manral When i giv ethe command i get [neeraj@anamika /]$ ps -aux|grep ssh neeraj 21031 0.0 0.6 1148 388 ? S 10:55 0:00 grep ssh I think it means its running ... Regards neeraj... - Original Message - From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?ssh problem

2000-11-22 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi Well No it's not running. You should get two entries there. One for ssh and one for grep :-)) Bye Shridhar Neeraj Manral wrote: Neeraj Manral When i giv ethe command i get [neeraj@anamika /]$ ps -aux|grep ssh neeraj 21031 0.0 0.6 1148 388 ? S 10:55 0:00 grep ssh

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?ssh problem

2000-11-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Neeraj Manral rearranged electrons thusly: Neeraj Manral When i giv ethe command i get [neeraj@anamika /]$ ps -aux|grep ssh neeraj 21031 0.0 0.6 1148 388 ? S 10:55 0:00 grep ssh No - that's just your grep process which is running. (hint - try ps -aux|grep ssh|grep -v grep)

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?

2000-11-21 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
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... :-))

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?

2000-11-21 Thread Pradeep Sangunni
Try SSh(secure login) better than telnet as well as safer than what telnet is. -- Best regards, Pradeep.Sangunni Pradeep.Sangunni -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 73495162 -- www.psgn.com SuSE Linux 7.0-- kernel 2.2.17 On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Neeraj Manral wrote: I want to log

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?

2000-11-21 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Neeraj Manral wrote: How safe is telnet. Not very. The password that you type is sent in clear text and can therfore be sniffed and compromised. Is there any safe way that can be used to log in from a remote location .I am more concerned about the superuser password. Look into SSH or

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?

2000-11-21 Thread ambarish pathak
Neeraj Manral wrote: I want to log on to my linux box from my home .? snip Is there any safe way that can be used to log in from a remote location .I am more concerned about the superuser password. snip ur aprehensions regarding telnet are true. same goes for ftp too. use ssh (secure shell)

Re: [LIH] telnet how safe ?

2000-11-21 Thread Neeraj Manral
Hi i was able to get some details on ssh . I even downloaded one of the utilities called telenet3.23 for win.I am using it to telnet my linux box (in off)from my res which has winnt 4.0. I am a bit confused on the ssh1 and ssh2 funda .?And the licensing system? Does one also have to make any

[LIH] telnet how safe ?

2000-11-20 Thread Neeraj Manral
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