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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:05:55 -0500 ()
From:      Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To:        Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@io.org>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stupid question no 10101
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.3.95.961125115018.-466169C-100000@swoosh.dunn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961125111229.16230c-100000@crunch.io.org>

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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Matt of the Long Red Hair wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, John Capo wrote:
> 
> > If your wire is not secure and you are not filtering at a router
> > then copying the password file via an encrypted link is your only
> > option.
> 
> A good way to do this is with ssh, a replacement for telnet,rlogin,rsh, etc.
> which encrypts all connections.  You could scp (secure rcp) your password
> files from machine to machine.
> 
> ssh is available as a FreeBSD port, BTW.  Check your local mirror.

Careful there. If you are in the US or Canada and you are using ssh in a
commercial application, you must either have a license with RSA or buy a
product that does.
(such as F-secure http://www.datafellows.com/f-secure/)

-BD




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