From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 17 5: 9:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (dialmess.nanolink.com [217.75.135.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21BF137B403 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 2966 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Aug 2001 12:07:49 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:07:49 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: "Carroll, D. (Danny)" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... Message-ID: <20010817150749.F724@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: "Carroll, D. (Danny)" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <98829DC07ECECD47893074C4D525EFC311561E@citsnl007.europe.intranet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <98829DC07ECECD47893074C4D525EFC311561E@citsnl007.europe.intranet>; from Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:00:26PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK, let's not go through this yet one more time.. alright? For most cases, anything less than SSH is asking for trouble. There *are* some cases, though, when telnet is acceptable (properly protected LAN's), and there are even some cases when telnet is the only really acceptable way - and yes, I've heard about all kinds of SSH clients, including Java ones, web-based ones, etc.. but still, there are cases when one simply has to use telnet, period. G'luck, Peter -- You have, of course, just begun reading the sentence that you have just finished reading. On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Carroll, D. (Danny) wrote: > Agreed > As far as I am concerned, anything less than SSH is asking for trouble. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mikhail Aronov [mailto:aronov@parkline.ru] > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:54 PM > To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... > > > On Aug 17, 2001, Roger Chien wrote: > > >Don't you know that the effect of Code Red infected machine? > >Most of them are innocent. > > > >BTW, your FreeBSD isn't absolutely secure, apply telnet-AYT patch > >already? > I was sure telnet died about 20 years ago together with passwordless > logins etc. Uncrypted session == broadcast session, isn't it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message