From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 29 12:46:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.af-inet.net (cx793560-a.dt1.sdca.home.com [65.5.163.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9436D37B406 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:46:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaron@af-inet.net) Received: from localhost (jaron@localhost) by mail.af-inet.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6TJi4L05181; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:44:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:44:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Agemo Noraj To: leegold Cc: Subject: Re: newsgroup way over my head In-Reply-To: <000d01c11715$4fd20300$0a87accf@shavedham> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For the time being, ssh is a encrypted telnet session. Ask about Kerberos later, after you become more familiar with your environment. The answers below are correct, but since your asking help with them, take heed. The above statement isn't exactly true, you'll learn that later on. But for now assuming you understand telnet, ssh is an encrypted telnet. Agemo Noraj -_-_-_-_-_ " What an excellent day for an exorcism. " _-_-_-_-_- On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, leegold wrote: > I asked in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc the follow and would appreciate > if anyone could help me with understanding the answer, it's a constant fight learning unix. > And, I don't think it has to be a "fight". Could anyone *help*. > > > newbie a bit overwhelmed by terminology: > > what is the difference between ssh vs. Kerberos? > > they're security and crypto protocols, right? > > Thanks, > > Lee G. > > Uh, apples and oranges. Kerberos is an authentication > and access control mechanism. Traditionally based on > shared symmetric keys between hosts, it employs the > concept of a ticket granting service and encrypted > credentials which are passed to hosts/processes to > gain access. The most recent versions incorporate > a lightweight PKI approach using certificate based > identities. > > SSH is a set of secure remote access programs which > provide an encrypted tunnel, no cleartext passwords, > X11 and other service forwarding,etc. There is no > ticket granting ticket or any concept of credentials, > only trusted public keys. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message