although I'm not sure I said part of the things I said were
misunderstood:)
am too tired to try to explain and I would accept your corrections:)
sweet night to you all:)
ll&p
Ely
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, guy keren wrote:
|
| On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Ely Levy wrote:
|
| > I'm almost sure and dont' kill me if I'm wrong that ssh works above the
| > telnet protocol and not replacing it..
|
| ely, i don't know where you bring these odd claims from, but:
|
| 1. ssh does not sit on top of telnet. it sits on top of tcp.
| 2. ftp also does not sit on top of telnet. it sits on top of tcp.
| 3. the same goes for http...
|
| you'd better sort out your confusion by reading a good book about the TCP
| protocol family (internetworking with TCP/IP, by douglas commer, for
| example).
|
| > sperate between dissing the telnet protocl the telnetd and the telnet
| > client:)
|
| it is the telnet protocol itself that is insecure. some telnet
| clients and servers did override this problem by moving the authentication
| part into using a more descent method (e.g. kerberos). alas, you cannot
| interoperate them with telnet clients/servers that use the normal
| (RFC-based) telnet protocol.
|
| > maybe one day ssh would replace telnetd but meanwhile for comptibilty with
| > the rest of the world telnted is still needed not mention that sniffing
| > ssh isn't that impossible as you make it sound (altough I agree it is
| > safter than telnet)
|
| what they were explaining is that when you control a complete network
| (e.g. your HOME LAN, or when you're an administrator of a site), then you
| can disable telnet/ftp and let all your users use ssh instead.
|
| guy
|
| "For world domination - press 1,
| or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
|
|
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