From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 17 9:52:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from hindenburg.eboai.org (hindenburg.eboai.org [206.183.134.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443F337B41A for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by hindenburg.eboai.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66EF45E2DF; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:52:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:52:38 -0500 From: Chip Marshall To: Barry Irwin Cc: Andrew Houghton , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to secure telnet? Message-ID: <20020117125238.B30218@setzer.chocobo.cx> Reply-To: chip@chocobo.cx Mail-Followup-To: Barry Irwin , Andrew Houghton , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <20020117194356.V32746@itouchlabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020117194356.V32746@itouchlabs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-URL: http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 up 102 days, 11:16 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 I was just about to suggest that. I've used MindTerm from all sorts of places to check my mail, including silly little pay-by-the-minute kiosks in airports, and demo stuff at CompUSA and in the mall. Works nicely. On January 17, 2002, Barry Irwin sent me the following: > 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 > > 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? -- Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a20>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP+ t+@ 5 X R@ tv+() b++>+++ DI++++ D(-) G++ e>++ h->++ r++ y- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message