From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 17 9:38:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.dev.itouchnet.net (devco.net [196.15.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1F537B416 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:38:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by mx1.dev.itouchnet.net with scanned_ok (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16RGWQ-000NWY-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:40:18 +0200 Received: from shell.devco.net ([196.15.188.7]) by mx1.dev.itouchnet.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16RGWP-000NWK-00; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:40:17 +0200 Received: from bvi by shell.devco.net with local (Exim 3.33 #4) id 16RGZw-000Cwx-00; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:43:56 +0200 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:43:56 +0200 From: Barry Irwin To: Andrew Houghton Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to secure telnet? Message-ID: <20020117194356.V32746@itouchlabs.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from aah@acm.org on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:35:29AM -0800 X-Checked: This message has been scanned for any virusses and unauthorized attachments. X-iScan-ID: 90426-1011289217-53830@mx1.dev.itouchnet.net version $Name: REL_2_0_2 $ 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 Have you had a look at a Java SSH client such as mindterm This runs as an applet in most modern browers and is tiny (sub 100K iirc). As a bonus it has really great terminal emulation. http://www.mindbrigt.se/mindterm Barry On Thu 2002-01-17 (09:35), 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? > > - a. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message