Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 17:06:20 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@microsoft.sucks.eu.org>, "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securetty? Message-ID: <199809060007.RAA27205@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809060033370.26871-100000@www.aachen.linux. de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809051413230.7033-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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At 12:36 AM 9/6/98 +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > >> There is a way, but why would you want to do that? It is very VERY >> insecure. > >I know that - I'm just going on a vacation, and the only means I'll have >to possibly use this computer (and fix up things) is using telnet from a >(yuck!!!) windoze 95 machine in a shop or something. I use an SSH client I got from http://public.srce.hr/~cigaly/ssh/ and it doesn't really require installation. Just 2 downloads that need to be unzipped. Of course, you could carry a laptop or a PalmPilot or a WinCE machine (if there's an ssh client for it, i don't know) with you. >> Please consider using SSH which can be found at >> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/login/ssh/ instead of telnet. > >Usually doing so - but on windoze? Without the possibility to install >something of my own? (Just a temporary thing...) > >Besides, ssh will use a ttyp?, as well - so I'd need to make the same >change. (Just where?) You won't need to make the change. Even if you ssh straight in as root. --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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