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From: Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP telnet/telnetd SRA patches
Date: 10 Sep 1996 16:09:09 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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Message-ID: <5143r5$cdb@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>
References: <nyq21XO@quack.kfu.com> <322C2F81.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <sa7k9u99ctg.fsf@goof.com>
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In article <sa7k9u99ctg.fsf@goof.com>, matthew c. mead <mmead@goof.com> wrote:
> People can still login via a form of telnet. You can lock out all
> access methods where a cleartext password goes over the network.
SSH reverts to rsh if there no ssh on the other computer. You can specify
what kind of authentication methods you want in the client and in the
server. There is not situation where ssh sends tthe password in the clear.
You'll get X11 forwarding and encryption for free...
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TIS -=- Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr
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