Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:15:24 +0100 (CET) From: Frans ter Borg <frans@quanza.net> To: Andrew Houghton <aah@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to secure telnet? Message-ID: <20020117190829.V88380-100000@support.euronet.nl> In-Reply-To: <DFEBLBPNIMCBCMIBDEOACELFEAAA.aah@acm.org>
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Andrew Houghton wrote: > I have a server for shell accounts, and up to now the only way people > have been able to access it is via SSH. One of the users is leaving for > a year-long, round-the-world jaunt. > > SSH is pretty much out of the question for him -- if he can find an > internet cafe in some of the places he's going, he won't be able to > install new software, it would probably take years just to download a > client over a 56K link, etc. etc. > > I'd like to support him by making telnet available to him. Any thoughts > on the best/most secure way to do this? I've just come from a year round the world (eastern and southern africa, india, southeast asia). There's many places that are a pain if it comes to shell-sessions, since latencies are just too high. If the shell account is mainly for e-mail, forwarding to a hotmail/yahoo account has worked pretty well for me... There's places with decent connectivity, I used those to download putty and get myself organised on the shell (organise my mail in pine-folders) front again... both hotmail and yahoo allow you to set Reply-to if I'm not mistaken. Frans To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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