Re: telnet connected but without response in cygwin 1.7.5

On 8/9/2010 8:15 AM, laurent.met...@cp.com wrote: I have the same problem as described here ( http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00202.html) , with telnet connection, there is no response. Where can I find a fix for this issue ? I am currently using cygwin 1.7.5 and issue is still there.

Re: telnet connected but without response

On 02/09/2010 10:50 AM, Tomasz Pona wrote: Out of necessity we're using SSH now, but it looks like telnet is a lot easier to maintain and understand: we had inetd configured already and we had to enable sshd. Obviously ssh-config scripts are doing great job setting defaults, but when reading doc

Re: telnet connected but without response

Charles Wilson wrote: > Bingo! telnet is an inherently unsafe technology which exchanges > passwords in plaintext, where any schmuck with a packet sniffer can see > your password. Combined that with wireless ethernet, and you're just > screaming "HACK ME!". > > If you have ANY choice in the matter,

Re: telnet connected but without response

Tomasz Pona wrote: > to Philipp: > this subject was once discussed yet on 8-9 Jan ("Vista and CYGWIN telnet") > where in conclusion Charles Wilson admitted it's a problem in inetutils. I'm currently working on an updated inetutils release based on upstream inetutils-1.7 (cygwin's current release i

Re: telnet connected but without response

Hello all, to Philipp: this subject was once discussed yet on 8-9 Jan ("Vista and CYGWIN telnet") where in conclusion Charles Wilson admitted it's a problem in inetutils. Anyway seems like most members are just silently ignoring this issue... Why? Is there some obvious solution/workaround? ...nob