[Tfug] OK guys enough

[Keith Davey]

Hi Erich,
The distro you are running would help me give you a more acurate answer.  However the trend today is to us ssh as the primary remote access method on most new linux distros.  Almost all new linux distros come with telnet disabled in inetd.conf by default, and for the most part it should stay that way.
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If you are connecting from a windows system to this box I recommend Putty as a good ssh client.  Small fast and effective.
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Chears
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Keith Davey


On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:19:27AM -0700, 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.
> 
> 
>                                                          Cheers,
>                                                          Erich
>    
> 
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