Thanks all the people who told me what Telnet is! In fact after the first off-list reply explaining what Telnet is, I successfully telnetted last night. It felt *exactly* like logging on to a local dial-up bulletin board in the old days. (And I logged on as 'new', as instructed).
I'll bear in mind that it's insecure. cr On Friday 24 May 2002 02:24, Little, John wrote: > telnet is a terminal communications program. used to open a terminal > session on a remote system. telnet is a command you can use on the > commandline > > ie : > [u51847@penguin u51847]$ telnet kidst500 > > kidst500 is a system on our local network that supports telnet sessions. > You usually have to have a userid unless the remote system supports > anonymous sessions. Normally you wouldn't want to telnet to > www.something.com because that is a webserver. However you can try this > "telnet www.something.com 80" that tells the telnet software to use port > 80. You can see what a http session looks like. > > One caveat is that telnet is insecure. It passes userids and passwords as > plaintext. If you are looking for security, use ssh. > > Also, try out your man pages ie: > > [u51847@penguin u51847]$ man telnet > -----Original Message----- > From: cr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Telnet > > > This probably sounds ridiculous to you all, but what's Telnet (as in > "Telnet > > to www.goodstuff.org") and what application (in Gnome or KDE?) could I > use > > to do it? I've used browsers/ftp/mailreaders/newsgroups but so far as I > know never 'telnetted'. > > chris > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
