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 08C9D37B42C 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 e8FK28I01686; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:02:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:02:08 -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: <002701c01f44$f11b28a0$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 um..how can they sniff your packets though when both machines are talking on a secure line? you have to connect to my machine first to be able to packet sniff, and if the firewall is denying your connection then you can't listen in on the port.. On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Wayne Sheppard wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message