[TriLUG] a simple question

[Jeffery Painter]

I agree with Chris on telnet.. ugly ugly :) unless you are disconnected 
from the internet, and even then you may forget one day and "plug in"

download putty if you must use windows, and you'll soon learn it has a 
much better display than that damned win32 telnet proggie.

search google for putty.exe and the first link will take you to the 
download page. small binary around 360k... I seem to live in putty when 
I'm working on the road


Jeff Painter


On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Chris Hedemark wrote:

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> On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 09:39 AM, Ian Zhang wrote:
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> > I have installed Red Hat 8.  How do I enable ftp and telnet access on 
> > my own machine?
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> ftp:
> * vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
> * change "disable = yes" to "disable = no"
> * service xinetd restart
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> telnet:
> This is one of those things where grizzled old sysadmins usually say if 
> you have to ask, then you probably don't understand the security 
> implications and shouldn't be told.  Telnet is evil.  99.999% of people 
> don't really have a viable excuse to enable it.  sshd is probably 
> already there, and should be used instead.
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