On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:38:10AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > We use telnet here because this is a diverse university network; we > can't force people to run ssh and any moron could go root on this > machine if he really wanted to.
why not? the most you'd have to do is put up a single web page with links to local copies of ssh clients for various platforms...and optionally replace telnetd with a script (or tcp-wrapper's "twist" capability) which printed a message displaying the URL and advising the user to install an ssh client. telnet problem solved with a minimum of user support calls. there's really no excuse for running (non-ssl) telnetd any more. good free ssh clients are available for just about every operating system. craig -- craig sanders
