Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:09:03 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP: how to enable telnet? Message-ID: <41ECFC5F.2090508@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41ECD4B4.1080106@finnovative.net> References: <41EC2790.4090500@finnovative.net> <41EC2CFA.2020009@finnovative.net> <200501171439.41285.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <200501171448.30670.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <41ECD4B4.1080106@finnovative.net>
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Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > Joshua Tinnin wrote: > >> On Monday 17 January 2005 02:39 pm, Joshua Tinnin >> <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: >> ... >> >>>> However, later I want to use Windows XP/2K3. They have decent ssh >>>> client support through tools like putty, but I don't know any good >>>> sshd solution on Windows. >>> >>> >>> I don't know if installing a new OS is an option, but any home >>> Windows OS pre-2000 is not secure in the first place (i.e., ME, 98, >>> 95). I would not use any of them if security is a consideration. >>> >>> BTW, PuTTY works very well, as does installing Cygwin so you can use >>> its tools (though that is a bit overkill, maybe). >> >> >> >> Wait, I'm sorry, I think I misunderstood you. If you want to run a >> secure daemon on Windows instead of on *nix, I'm not sure, actually. >> You might be able to do this with Cygwin, but I've only used it to >> login to sshd on a *nix machine. >> >> - jt > > > Oh. At home I have 11 computers: 2 sparcs, 2 macs, 8 pcs (mix of > PIVs, AMDs, and C3s). They run *nix OSes (SuSE, Fedora, FreeBSD, > Solaris, Mac OS X, Tenon) and of course Winows XP/2K3. I don't bother > with older OSes, except for experimentation, e.g. learning how older > OSes are better supported by UNIX than Windows for both performance > and security. > > Between computers, I want to have interoperability between them > (print, file share, X, remoting, rtools/telnet/ftp). For insecure > solutions, I was interesting in playing with SSL, SSH, Kerberos, and > IPSec. Also, looking into secure single sign-on facility. > > However, I am far from getting the experiments off the ground. I am > just barely above getting the darn things to work, with drivers, > wi-fi, bluetooth, etc. Many companies still uncooperative with open > source communities, a matter I hope to help proactively. > > In the mean time, I'll get a handle on SSH facilities (as well as > getting hardware to work). > > Oh, lastly, Cygwin is cool. I'm interested in both cygwin and > non-cygwin (mingw) solutions for both client/server. I tried all the > client tools, both putty and ssh, both work well. Never knew that > sshd was working so well. :-> > > Wish there was a way though to redirect the Windows desktop as a X > client ;-> VNC (Virtual Network Computing): http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/ http://www.realvnc.com/ http://www.tightvnc.com/
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