From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 17 14: 0:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from reiters.org (reiters.org [64.40.73.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D653637B405 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:00:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by reiters.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5F049D64C; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:00:18 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:00:18 -0600 From: Dennis Reiter To: Andrew Houghton Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to secure telnet? Message-ID: <20020117220018.GC96343@reiters.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Uptime: 3:58PM up 125 days, 18 mins, 9 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.08, 0.29 X-Pooftas: No X-PGP-Key: http://pgp.dtype.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x997F9D70 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 Putty should be able to fit onto a floppy disk for SSH. I have no clue how you'd implement it, but something like pop-before-telnet would be kind of neat. On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:35:29AM -0800, 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 -- Denny Reiter denny@reiters.org So I don't hurt your feelings: happydenny@reiters.org www.scapegoats.org "The network is not down. We're just experiencing 100% packet loss." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message