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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:55:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joshua Barker <phire@jigaboos.com>
To: Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
Cc: Wagner <wagner@ustr.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: Brand New Installed FreeBSD, need Telnet Access.
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heh who cares. just enable telnet when you need to use it.. also how is
telnet rootable?

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Joel Bjork wrote:

> 
> On 14-Sep-00 Wagner wrote:
> > Hi, I just installed a FreeBSD Unix to this new machine.
> 
> <SNIP>
>  
> > What files at the new UNIX do I need to change and configure IP's, etc.,
> > to make it remotely available via telnet?
> > 
> 
> Do not use telnet, it is very insecure and what you are talking about
> requires superuser access. Use SSH instead, it's pretty much the encrypted
> counterpart of Telnet. SSH is in the portcollection, I would recommend going
> with ssh or Openssh, not ssh2 since I've heard a lot of bad things about it.
> You probably want to add the user to the group wheel so he can use su and or
> install sudo to make his life even easier.
> 
> If you go with ssh you shouldn't have to do anything with the unixbox as long
> as you have connectivity to the Internet.
> 
> > I am sorry, I am just a novice at Unix (unfortunately), but dealing with
> > PC's since 1984. I am starting to like Unix, I doesn't have those nasty
> > blue screens... :)
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.
> > 
> > Chris.
> > 
> > 
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> Date: 15-Sep-00
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