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Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Ely Levy wrote:
> Ohh come on...
> can you compile ssh on all platforms?
Yes. :) And on Windows/NT/2000 you can use TeraTermPro+ssh (freeware).
> ssh is not even GNU..it has some crappy licence to use it
ssh2 has that crappy license afaik. ssh1 doesn't.
> and openssh is not good enough to be used yet
I hear openssh is good enough to use from the ssh mailing list itself, and
from BugTraq.
> not mention ssh did have some exploite in it
The ssh with the RSAREF library. Are you a US/Canada resident ?
> and that telnet is a protocol widely used from ftp to http and by other
> protocols..so don't burry it so fast..
Telnet is indeed widely used, but its lack of secure authentication is a
real problem, which tends to be forgotten, but when it bites, it bites
hard.
--Ariel
>
> ll&p
>
> Ely Levy
> System group
> Hebrew University
> Jerusalem Israel
>
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
>
> |BR>> Wow!, wont that be chopping your head as a cure for a bad cold ?...
> |BR>> What about telneting from local machines? FTPing for file transfers
> |
> |Telnet must die. There's no telnet anymore, there's SSH. Why you need
> |telnet if you have SSH? Just because you have a (particullary bad) telnet
> |client in windows distribution? That's not a base for security decisions.
> |As for FTP - there are many FTP servers that run in standalone. While I
> |don't support the idea of disabling inetd, minimizing number of services
> |is good. And if you end up having no services in inetd - you don't need it
> |indeed :)
> |
> |--
> |frodo@sharat.co.il \/There shall be counsels taken
> |Stanislav Malyshev /\Stronger than Morgul-spells
> |phone +972-3-9316425 /\ JRRT LotR.
> |http://sharat.co.il/frodo/ whois:!SM8333
> |
> |
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