Hi David! Well, in my case the terminal is an VT-100, so it's connected directly to the one of the serial ports of the server, so nothing's going wildly to the network in cleartext. I don't know about Xterminals, though... I guess they are networked, but I really don't know much about the protocol :(
And changing topic, how about that code-revieu debian list? It sure sounds interesting, and many of us would learn a great deal :) Debian gurus out there, let's give it a shot! Where/who can we contact? Miquel On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 09:24:42AM -0500, David Ehle wrote: > > I am in a similar situation as Miquel, and was consdering a similar > option... but one thing keeps nagging at me as far as the security of the > setup. SSH will encrypt all the data transmitted between the "portal" > machine and other hosts, but what is keeping someone from sniffing > everything going from the clear text telnet connection to the Vt100, or in > my case an old Xterminal? > > Any one have any thoughts on assessing the risk? Or a solution to > the situation?Maybe i'm missunerstanding his situation due to mine... > > (i'm currently trying to convice my department to throw out the old Xterms > and let me put in some old PPro's w/ barebones linux installs to replace > them.) > > > Thanks! > David Ehle > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
