Re: [expert] telnet and X

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> 
> I'm having a similar problem.  I can connect to the box but then the error
> "connection closed by foreign host" . ftp conections work fine and Apache
> is fine.
> 
Pat:
Did you manually install the telnet-server package? If not,
do so now. Then, make sure telnetd is started by default.
HOWEVER, it is HIGHLY recommended that you use SSH or
something similar instead of Telnet. Telnet can be sniffed.
SSH cannot. SSH is *secure,* Telnet is NOT!!!
        John