I'm very well aware that telnet is not a secure protocol, and would never install it on a machine that is directly accessible to the outside world. It's on a fileserver on an internal network behind a firewall. I do know what I'm doing from this respect. I'm a newbie to Debian, not to *NIX and networking.
--Aaron "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > I'll issue the standard advisory: telnetd is an insecure protocol and > it's very strongly recommended that you *not* install or activate > telnetd on your system. SSH is an encrypted, authenticated drop-in > replacement, with clients available for all significant computing > platforms. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org > Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org > Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature