On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Anthony E . Greene wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:55:24 Steven Pierce wrote:
> >I am sorry that I am not totally getting this. If you telnet on to your
> >machine,
> >users are looking for the password as it is typed. OK, that I understand,
> >but what I am
> >not real clear about is that by using SSH how do you log in? Or does that
> >give you a log
> >in prompt without telneting??
>
> SSH looks just like telnet. You get a prompt "login as: " then you get
> prompted for a password. The difference is that the connection is encrypted.
> Otherwise it looks/acts like telnet or rlogin. I don't run telnet anymore, I
> only use SSH. To access my Linux machines from Winboxes, I use PuTTY
> <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/licence.html>. It's free
> and easy to setup.
SSH also lets you exchange keys between the client and the server and then
you can use the keys alone to authenticate your login. Once set up, it is
as easy to use as rlogin, rsh or rexec, but far more secure than even
normal password authentication with ssh.
SSH also does cool stuff like automatically forwarding X sessions or other
TCP connections through an encrypted socket.
The rlogin (1) man page ends with this note:
BUGS
Rlogin will be replaced by telnet(1) in the near future.
I think that telnet should similarly be marked as obsolete in the face of
ssh. There is nothing telnet can do that ssh can't do better.
thornton
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