Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 00:17:32 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Howard Picken <howard@tasfamily.net.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: RE: An idiot, his box, and a security question [PuTTY telnet/ssh] Message-ID: <20020317001244.Y30953-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <PBEIJOCAMIIHMPBPAJAGGEGFCCAA.howard@tasfamily.net.au>
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On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Howard Picken wrote: > I use a program called "putty" to connect remotely from windoze to my bsd boxes. I used to use PuTTY from my workplace (because they are Win2000). It's a great program, endorsed by many ITKUP (In-the-Know-Unix-Peoples) including my ISP (www.cloud9.net) - to find it, simply search for putty telnet using Yahoo or what have you. > There are several flavours of putty but the main one does secure connections and telnet sessions and handles the different ports used by secure connection. Make sure you check the box for (*)SSH, as the default in the program is Telnet I think! > You can then login with your normal use name/password then "su" to super user. I still don't get this whole "don't use root" issue. If I had installed Win2000 at home (after having had EEEEnough of Win98SR1), then I would've created a login with Administrator rights. I login as root to my FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE box all the time. The "su" command confuses me, so I stay way away from it, besides, I am constantly tweaking *system-wide* and installing programs, so why would I ever login from userland?? Can someone clarify this Unix no-no please? > I guess if your not using windoze at the remote site then all this is a waste of information :-) So if it's valid then good luck > Howard you're -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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