From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 5 17:07:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27211 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chipweb.ml.org (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA27205 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:07:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Message-Id: <199809060007.RAA27205@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 25151 invoked from network); 6 Sep 1998 00:06:23 -0000 Received: from speedy.chipweb.ml.org (172.16.1.1) by inet.chipweb.ml.org with SMTP; 6 Sep 1998 00:06:23 -0000 X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 17:06:20 -0700 To: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer , "Jan B. Koum " From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: securetty? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:36 AM 9/6/98 +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > >> There is a way, but why would you want to do that? It is very VERY >> insecure. > >I know that - I'm just going on a vacation, and the only means I'll have >to possibly use this computer (and fix up things) is using telnet from a >(yuck!!!) windoze 95 machine in a shop or something. I use an SSH client I got from http://public.srce.hr/~cigaly/ssh/ and it doesn't really require installation. Just 2 downloads that need to be unzipped. Of course, you could carry a laptop or a PalmPilot or a WinCE machine (if there's an ssh client for it, i don't know) with you. >> Please consider using SSH which can be found at >> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/login/ssh/ instead of telnet. > >Usually doing so - but on windoze? Without the possibility to install >something of my own? (Just a temporary thing...) > >Besides, ssh will use a ttyp?, as well - so I'd need to make the same >change. (Just where?) You won't need to make the change. Even if you ssh straight in as root. --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message