With ssh you have to connect with a secure client, which you can get on any unix, and there's a free one for win32, called putty, which is very nice. Supports telnet, too.
The problem with telnet is that nayone who wants to sniff your network can get every packet decrypted from plain old text. So they watch you type username: pass and get it. Or if they're really great they watch for you to type su: pass and then they've got your root. Bad thing. And really easy to do. Putty is ~200k to d/l, so it's pretty easy to get anywhere-- I* think you can even run it off of a floppy... Regards, Glen > Subject: ssh pam > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:29:46 +0000 > From: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hi all, > > I rarely access my box other than by telnet and I'm > told that I should use a more secure setup. > > What is the Debian recommended approach? ssh? PAM? > Are they hard to implement? I often use a different PC > so I need a sloution that does not require a secure client. > > Thanks in advance. > > Patrick Kirk > -- Glen S Mehn GoMo.com Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
