Telnet & rlogin

[Ron Peterson]

Derek Martin wrote:

> All that said, just download ssh and use that instead.  It's much more
> secure (or can be -- you can make it fairly insecure if you try hard) and
> a lot more featureful/flexible than either telnet or rlogin/rsh.

I just spent some time finding this.  Go to:

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/Security/Crypto/SSH/

I've only just compiled, installed, and tried this; so I'm certainly no
expert.  But very easy to set up, and works great so far.  So far I'm
just talking to my server on my LAN.  I'm hoping to get the same thing
set up from home, so I can expose various services I'd like to use
remotely.

There's a really nice feature in that it will automatically set up your
DISPLAY environment for running X apps over ssh.  Very cool.

Ron Peterson
rpeterson at yellowbank.com (home)
rpeterson at wallacefloyd.com (work)
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