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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:55:54 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
To:        "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        "arch@FreeBSD.ORG" <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven" <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@citusc.usc.edu>, "Matt Dillon" <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf
Message-ID:  <200010121549.LAA44352@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
In-Reply-To: <72470.971194813@critter>

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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:20:13 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>In message <xzphf6k4qzx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
>>Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes:
>>> And as I pointed out earlier: having ssh doesn't help people who have
>>> only a windows box to connect from.
>>
>>There are numerous ssh clients that run on Windows, and some of them
>>are even not only free, but open-source as well (mindterm, for instance)
>
>I know, but I don't want to make the learning curve harder than
>it need to be.  Besides, it's not always possible to get permission
>to install software on corporate windows machines.

There is also the training involved.
If a company has most/all the telnet/ftp boxes behind a firewall
then for internal employees using ssh is added security but not
as critical.


francisco
Moderator of the Corporate BSD list
http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate




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