Hello! Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > I updated my machine to the latest stable source yesterday (2/27/03) and > > I'm now getting this message when [attempting to] telneting into it: > > On a side note, if you're interested enough in security to deal with > Kerberos, you should permanently lose telnet. Seriously. SSH does > everything telnet will and doesn't have the gaping security hole of > transferring plaintext data across a network. I can think of a setup where the possibility of bugs in the much more complex sshd application outweighs the remote chance of someone sniffing by quite a margin. Think of ISP infrastructure, a switched network completely under your control. OpenSSH has had its share of security holes and while I generally agree with you that it's a good idea to use ssh where appropriate, I don't share the general "telnet is bad because it's plain text hysteria" ;-) Just my $.02 Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
