From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 15 20:10:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.jigaboos.com (cx432478-a.cnbfs1.ia.home.com [24.17.99.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF93A37B43C for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:10:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (phire@localhost.cnbfs1.ia.home.com [127.0.0.1]) by ns1.jigaboos.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e8FJNOI01619; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:23:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:23:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Joshua Barker To: Wayne Sheppard Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Brand New Installed FreeBSD, need Telnet Access. In-Reply-To: <000c01c01f23$8288e560$a301a8c0@p3wayne> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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