From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 9:13:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.mail.yahoo.com (smtp.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38ABB37B79C for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hbenedict_fbsd@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO radiance) (165.21.86.24) by smtp.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2000 09:13:37 -0800 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <200004020015250600.00293539@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20000401085207.C517@teleport.com> References: <200004012320460820.00B1C631@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> <200004012338050570.000705DB@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> <20000401085207.C517@teleport.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.00.00.14 (3) Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 00:15:25 +0700 From: "Benedict H" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: superuser Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, I'll try both using ssh and sudo thanks Benny *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 04/00 at 8:52 AM Dirk Myers wrote: >On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:38:05PM +0700, Benedict H typed: >> Anyway, is it secure for me to send root password via telnet when I add= user?. >> >> How if I want to add user via telnet but still want to avoid sending= root password? > >Use ssh. It's in the ports for 3.X and is (I think, I'm not running >4.0) installed by default for 4.0. 'ssh' stands for 'secure shell' >-- all the traffic between the client and the host is encrypted. ssh >clients are available for Windows, Mac, and (naturally) pretty much >any unix-style system. > >Dirk dirkm@teleport.com >-- >Do the simplest thing which could possibly work. -- Kent Beck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message