[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote: >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...
The URL for PuTTY is: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty.html I agree, it's an extremely nice program. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trinity College, Cambridge, and Computer Science [riva.ucam.org]
