From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 17 10:15:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from support.euronet.nl (support.euronet.nl [194.134.32.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E20D37B417 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:15:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (franst@localhost) by support.euronet.nl (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0HIFO694093; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:15:25 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: support.euronet.nl: franst owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:15:24 +0100 (CET) From: Frans ter Borg X-X-Sender: franst@support.euronet.nl To: Andrew Houghton Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to secure telnet? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020117190829.V88380-100000@support.euronet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Andrew Houghton wrote: > I have a server for shell accounts, and up to now the only way people > have been able to access it is via SSH. One of the users is leaving for > a year-long, round-the-world jaunt. > > SSH is pretty much out of the question for him -- if he can find an > internet cafe in some of the places he's going, he won't be able to > install new software, it would probably take years just to download a > client over a 56K link, etc. etc. > > I'd like to support him by making telnet available to him. Any thoughts > on the best/most secure way to do this? I've just come from a year round the world (eastern and southern africa, india, southeast asia). There's many places that are a pain if it comes to shell-sessions, since latencies are just too high. If the shell account is mainly for e-mail, forwarding to a hotmail/yahoo account has worked pretty well for me... There's places with decent connectivity, I used those to download putty and get myself organised on the shell (organise my mail in pine-folders) front again... both hotmail and yahoo allow you to set Reply-to if I'm not mistaken. Frans To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message