From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:40:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08137 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:40:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07841 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:39:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28666; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:39:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:39:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Capriotti cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet root login In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980225175754.00a60950@pop.mpc.com.br> 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 On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Capriotti wrote: > Disabling the telnet completly means that the FBSD box won't use telnet to > exchange terminal information (right???), BUT, if I start using SSH, what > am I using at the client side to access the FBSD box ? Nope; simply run sshd on the server then use ssh to connect to it. Nothing uses telnet except for humans. :) I know of two machines connected this way and I feel much better about logging into them since I know my password won't be snooped. I try to use ssh wherever possible. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message