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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:57:42 -0500 (EST)
From:      Tony <missing@nts.umd.edu>
To:        "Lapinski, Michael (CRD)" <lapinski@crd.ge.com>
Cc:        "'Andrew Houghton'" <aah@acm.org>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: How to secure telnet?
Message-ID:  <20020117124821.N9875-100000@nts.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD702E72D78@XMB03CRDGE>

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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Lapinski, Michael (CRD) wrote:

> putty.exe is free, small and easy to find.

and doesn't require a typical M$ installation.
The binary can be copied from the website to anywhere the user
has permission to write to ( ie Desktop, C:/tmp , etc ...)

-T

>
> -mtl
> --------------------------------------------------
> Michael Lapinski
> Computer Scientist
> GE Corporate Research & Development
>
>
> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
>             - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Houghton [mailto:aah@acm.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:35 PM
> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: How to secure telnet?
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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