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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:48:30 -0800
From:      Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Cc:        Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net>
Subject:   Re: HELP: how to enable telnet?
Message-ID:  <200501171448.30670.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200501171439.41285.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
References:  <41EC2790.4090500@finnovative.net> <41EC2CFA.2020009@finnovative.net> <200501171439.41285.krinklyfig@spymac.com>

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On Monday 17 January 2005 02:39 pm, Joshua Tinnin 
<krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote:
...
> > However, later I want to use Windows XP/2K3.  They have decent ssh
> > client support through tools like putty, but I don't know any good
> > sshd solution on Windows.
>
> I don't know if installing a new OS is an option, but any home
> Windows OS pre-2000 is not secure in the first place (i.e., ME, 98,
> 95). I would not use any of them if security is a consideration.
>
> BTW, PuTTY works very well, as does installing Cygwin so you can use
> its tools (though that is a bit overkill, maybe).

Wait, I'm sorry, I think I misunderstood you. If you want to run a 
secure daemon on Windows instead of on *nix, I'm not sure, actually. 
You might be able to do this with Cygwin, but I've only used it to 
login to sshd on a *nix machine.

- jt



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