Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:26:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@microsoft.sucks.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securetty? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809051714120.29614-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199809060006.RAA29174@proxy2.ba.best.com>
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Why not use PicoBSD? You can boot a PC with it and ssh from the box. Check out www.freebsd.org/~abial for more info. -- Yan I don't have the password + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ludwig Pummer wrote: >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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