[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Tami Friedman wrote: > > > For now, I am curious if anyone > > can give me a good reason why a sysadmin would not allow telnet to > > be used (when the m$ equivalent of a daemon) is not disabled? > > Well, an unrelated reason is that SSH is far, FAR more secure. > It doesn't plaintext-send stuff like passwords. > > But that's not related to this particular problem. Hrm. Actually isn't putty an ssh client? If so, she could have avoided the whole mess by truthfully answering that she was not running telnet. Also, if she ran it from the floppy, then she wasn't installing anything on the machine. -- Kathryn Hogg _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
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