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Date:      Sun, 02 Apr 2000 00:15:25 +0700
From:      "Benedict H" <hbenedict_fbsd@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Re: superuser
Message-ID:  <200004020015250600.00293539@smtp.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000401085207.C517@teleport.com>
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OK, I'll try both using ssh and sudo


thanks

Benny


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On 04/00 at 8:52 AM Dirk Myers wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:38:05PM +0700, Benedict H typed:
>> Anyway, is it secure for me to send root password via telnet when I add=
 user?.
>> 
>> How if I want to add user via telnet but still want to avoid sending=
 root password?
>
>Use ssh.  It's in the ports for 3.X and is (I think, I'm not running
>4.0) installed by default for 4.0.   'ssh' stands for 'secure shell'
>-- all the traffic between the client and the host is encrypted.  ssh
>clients are available for Windows, Mac, and (naturally) pretty much
>any unix-style system.
>
>Dirk	   dirkm@teleport.com
>--  
>Do the simplest thing which could possibly work.  -- Kent Beck




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