[Tfug] OK guys enough

[Harry McGregor]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Erich Flothmeier wrote:

>
>   Enough of "Re: [Tfug] When RTFM is not enough", that is. I got some good
> advice, but stop turning this into a "pissin contest".
>
>   I have to say something, now, because I'm the one that started this
> thread, and it seems to have taken on a life of its own.
>
>   Let's raise the cultural level of this listserv. I have another
> question. Linux security is much improved since the dark days of
> kernel 2.0.35. It's almost too good: for example I can't log onto
> my new machine from an existing machine. I keep getting a "connection
> refused" message. Telnet and rsh are out. What are some things besides
> the Security_HOWTO that I can get. I don't want to compromize security
> on this machine. I want to know how to authenticate to it in today's
> Linux world.

OpenSSH is the way you want to go, there should be an RPM of it on the
Mandrake CD you installed from, if not, grab it from the mandrake website,
or if you have to from the mandrake cooker.

			Harry

>
>                                                          Cheers,
>                                                          Erich
>
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