Morgan Wajda-Levie on Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:51:33 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Re: telnet login 

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 05:08:00PM -0400, Michael W. Ryan wrote:
> No, the telnet login is *NOT* encrypted.  I just verified this by sniffing
> my own packets, and I was able to read my password in the telnet packet
> data.  Granted, it was divided up between packets, but it was there.
> 

If you want secure telnet, you need to use ssh.  You can grab it from
any non-US Debian mirror.  I don't know about Redhat packages.

If you're serious about security on your box, installing ssh and
disabling rlogin and rsh is a *very* good idea.

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