Not that I disagree that SSH is more secure than telnet, but telnet has its place too. Mostly, not on the Internet on a trusted LAN. I work for a company that deals with hundreds of unix servers on a day to day basis (all over the country), and they all run telnet. Its not something that can be changed easily, because they are not our servers, they are our customers. But almost none of them have telnet accessible from the Internet, you can only get into their networks via modem. Telnet is well established (there are clients for it preinstalled on most every OS- save old Mac) and as long as it is used in the right environments, thats fine. Lets not push for the demise of telnet, lets push for proper education on when to run it. (and the internet is NOT a place to run it) Jay -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Brian Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 9:24 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] restarting Redhat 7x via telnet On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Mike Hicks wrote: > > I have tried to restart my Linux server via Telnet, but have be > > unsuccessful. Can someone give be the specifics for this. > > SSH! http://www.openssh.com/ and probably a package inside a distribution > near you. Yeah, I was one of those those folks who su'd over telnet. Then I got compromised. Reformat, restore from back up, install SSH, change root password, all back up now. Now there's the news of an exploit in telnetd, just strengthens my argument that telnet needs to go away. -Brian _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list