[TriLUG] a simple question

[Roy Vestal]

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

or

http://startputty.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffery Painter" <painter at kiasoft.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] a simple question


>
> 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:
> >
> > > I have installed Red Hat 8.  How do I enable ftp and telnet access on
> > > my own machine?
> >
> > ftp:
> > * vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
> > * change "disable = yes" to "disable = no"
> > * service xinetd restart
> >
> > 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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