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[Manney]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 06 May 2007, Manney wrote:
>> Dan Olson wrote:
>>> I'm still fighting figuring out how to enable telnet and ftp in 
>>> Debian, this stuff used to be pretty simple (not to mentioned 
>>> enabled by default) in the past.
>> I'll ask the obvious. Did you install proftpd? I have mine as a 
>> standalone, and have been using proftpd since I switched from 
>> RedHat -> Mandrake -> Debian. So around 1998 - 1999?
>> 
>> I've never had to telnet in to any of my machines, so I'm going to 
>> play to see if I can get it to work...
>> 
>> Okay, there are packages called telnetd and telnetd-ssl. I 
>> installed telnetd and it worked without any configuration.
>> 
> But, telnet is also pretty insecure, Manny.  I don't think, since my 
> original install of rh5.1, that I've ever enabled a telnet server on 
> any of my boxes.

I thought I heard something about the insecurity of telnet. I've
uninstalled telnetd. Thanks for the heads up.

> Use the Secure SHell, aka ssh, for such duties.  One of the security 
> mechanisms there is that not only does the comm between the machines 
> become encrypted, each machine will generate its own identifier hash 
> so that the other machine will recognize it again.

ssh is what I normally use for my machines.

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> X can also be exported over this ssh channel, so that an xwindow 
> based program can be run, and its output displayed on your screen
> just as if it was running locally on your machine, but that takes a
> little more setup on both machines to do.

That's setup as well. :) I love it when I have to work with my wife's 
computer. It beats most other choices other than VNC. (Which my wife's 
computer's implementation is currently broke.

-M.