From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 15 12:44:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04FEF37B424 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p3wayne (user-38ld75h.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.156.177]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA17170 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:44:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002701c01f44$f11b28a0$a301a8c0@p3wayne> From: "Wayne Sheppard" To: References: Subject: Re: Brand New Installed FreeBSD, need Telnet Access. Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:43:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Firewalls only protect the network INSIDE the firewall. Anything outside the firewall is vulnerable. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Barker" > Firewall? Uhh, if you have a firewall on both systems, only allowing > computer A and computer B to accept connections on port 21, the rest are > denied, no one will be able to sniff your packets, right? > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Wayne Sheppard wrote: > > > From: "Joshua Barker" > > > heh who cares. just enable telnet when you need to use it.. also how is > > > telnet rootable? > > > > You can't enable telnet remotely. So when you really need telnet (ie not > > sitting at the console) you have no way to enable it. > > > > Telnet sends passwords in cleartext. If anyone sniffs your packets, they > > can grab your password. If you su to root (or log in as root), they can > > grab your root password as well. SSH sends all passwords encrypted, > > preventing anyone from intercepting your password. > > > > > > Wayne > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message