[ale] Telnet on 7.1

[sangell at nan.net]

I do know the disasters that can ocompany telnet but I am only using this
system on my internal lan.....port 23 is alreay blocked from the outside
world via firewall.
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                    "Charles Marcus"                                                                                   
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                    12/13/2001 03:25                                                                                   
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Dixon [mailto:beatle at arches.uga.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 3:11 PM
> To: sangell at nan.net
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Telnet on 7.1
>
> The simple answer is don't enable telnet. Use ssh instead. I
> can't think
> of any situation where telnet would be better suited than ssh.
>
> Ben

That goes without saying, but I was giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Anyone who doesn't understand the security implication of using telnet has
no business doing sysadmin work.

Charles



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