From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 5 17:28:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28918 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28913 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:28:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id RAA01361; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:26:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:26:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Ludwig Pummer cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securetty? In-Reply-To: <199809060006.RAA29174@proxy2.ba.best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why not use PicoBSD? You can boot a PC with it and ssh from the box. Check out www.freebsd.org/~abial for more info. -- Yan I don't have the password + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ludwig Pummer wrote: >At 12:36 AM 9/6/98 +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >>On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: >> >>> There is a way, but why would you want to do that? It is very VERY >>> insecure. >> >>I know that - I'm just going on a vacation, and the only means I'll have >>to possibly use this computer (and fix up things) is using telnet from a >>(yuck!!!) windoze 95 machine in a shop or something. > >I use an SSH client I got from >http://public.srce.hr/~cigaly/ssh/ >and it doesn't really require installation. Just 2 downloads that need to >be unzipped. Of course, you could carry a laptop or a PalmPilot or a WinCE >machine (if there's an ssh client for it, i don't know) with you. > >>> Please consider using SSH which can be found at >>> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/login/ssh/ instead of telnet. >> >>Usually doing so - but on windoze? Without the possibility to install >>something of my own? (Just a temporary thing...) >> >>Besides, ssh will use a ttyp?, as well - so I'd need to make the same >>change. (Just where?) > >You won't need to make the change. Even if you ssh straight in as root. > >--Ludwig Pummer >ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org >ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message