From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 0:41:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272BB37BD68 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 00:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA15348; Tue, 30 May 2000 00:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <393370BE.D2B8E1C8@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:41:50 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0528 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David McNett Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Nathan Vidican Subject: Re: telnet software References: <00052812452502.00345@freebsd.freebsd.org> <200005270241.e4R2fGH02310@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000530013842.A90843@avatar.hfdirect.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David McNett wrote: > > On 26-May-2000, Chris Fedde wrote: > > I've looked at this recently (with a view to supporting ssh-v1) I find that > > tterm has superior user interface and emulation to putty. For shear > > accuracy of emulation though, I'd go with kermit. > > As far as putty is concerned, I've never been comfortable running an ssh > client by someone who not only refuses to implement rsa authentication, > but also seems to lack understanding as to why rsa authentication is a good > thing to have. That is a mischarecterization of the author's position, which can be found at the end of http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist.html. If you don't want to use putty, don't. But please don't cast aspersions on someone just because they don't agree with the "wisdom" of your position. Personally I agree that trying to do something like RSA identity file authentication from a windows machine is a giant security nightmare. I've used putty for a year and a half now, and I've found it to be ideal for the niche that it's designed to occupy. I've corresponded with the author (in the course of tracking down a display bug) and found him to be both responsive and sharp. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message