On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Jim Kaufman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:57:01PM -0400, Jan Carlson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:35:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Does anyone know whether the telnet server that comes with RedHat 6.2 (or 7.1,
> > > for that matter) is affected by this?
> >
> > I am curious - why would you want to use a telnet server on Linux?
> > You can replace it with ssh and talk to that with free ssh clients
> > that are available on every important OS.
>
> I hear this question a lot. Well, I was in England on business recently.
> There are a lot of places that will rent you time on a computer there,
> but none of the computers that I rented time on had an ssh client. By
> setting up a telnet server on a non-standard port on my home machine, I
> had the ability to get in, check my mail, and get out.
>
> For those who don't travel to England, what about using a public machine
> at a library to check your mail. How many of those have ssh clients?
Jan's Webmin idea is one that I have not tried, but consider another
alternative that may work too: if you run a webserver, you can store a
Windows executable in a web directory, and you can execute it from any
remote Windows machine which doesn't block executables.
http://my.server.domain.com/putty.exe
Click Okay in IE to Run from Current Location
*I haven't tried this either - I don't use Windows *
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