From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 21:22:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B60E16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:22:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1382043D45 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:22:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([82.161.136.218]:10074 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CqeK5-0009sD-7y for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:22:05 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69C41A9A7 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:21:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.111] (82-197-198-30.dsl.cambrium.nl [82.197.198.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4CE3701F for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:21:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41EC2C6D.9070302@scii.nl> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:21:49 +0100 From: albi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041228) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <41EC2790.4090500@finnovative.net> In-Reply-To: <41EC2790.4090500@finnovative.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: HELP: how to enable telnet? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:22:11 -0000 Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > Just some questions about telnet. I just installed FreeBSD. I want to > setup so that I can telnet into it and do some work on it (as it'll be > the server for the house) you want ssh not telnet, ssh is included be default, and there's more in the /usr/ports/security/ if you really think you need telnet, then telnet-ssl is perhaps an option (by default telnet is sending username and password unencrypted) > Is there a way to restrict telnet access from certain IPs? Do I need > xinetd? Does FreeBSD come with xinetd? yes, it's in the ports-section (security)