Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:59:49 +0100 (CET) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with telnet Message-ID: <200302281559.h1SFxn6k044386@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <87n0kge6yk.fsf@strauser.com>
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Hello! Kirk Strauser wrote: > > I updated my machine to the latest stable source yesterday (2/27/03) and > > I'm now getting this message when [attempting to] telneting into it: > > On a side note, if you're interested enough in security to deal with > Kerberos, you should permanently lose telnet. Seriously. SSH does > everything telnet will and doesn't have the gaping security hole of > transferring plaintext data across a network. I can think of a setup where the possibility of bugs in the much more complex sshd application outweighs the remote chance of someone sniffing by quite a margin. Think of ISP infrastructure, a switched network completely under your control. OpenSSH has had its share of security holes and while I generally agree with you that it's a good idea to use ssh where appropriate, I don't share the general "telnet is bad because it's plain text hysteria" ;-) Just my $.02 Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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