you can shutdown with telnet
log in as a user, su to root and then
shutdown -r now
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Telnet vs SSH
> The difference is in security for the most part. There are some other
> perks to SSH that telnet does not allow. For example you could shut
> down a machine with the command:
>
> ssh -l root hostname.dns.com shutdown -h now
>
> Once you execute that command, it will ask you for the RSA key passcode
> and then log into that machine, execute that command and then log out.
> The machine will then shut down. This can't be done in telnet. And if
> it can, it's not done easily, I've tried the command and it won't allow
> it or look like there's a simple way to do that.
>
> [timh@r2d2 timh]$ ssh yoda uptime
> timh@yoda's password:
> 11:39am up 51 days, 11:44, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
> There's an example.
>
> There's also the security. With Telnet, you can't telnet in as root due
> to the fact that it sends a plain text passwd and it's not hard at all
> to catch those passwds. SSH sends a plain text key. The key has the
> passcode encrypted within that key.
>
> Windows comes with Telnet. And it's installed by default in Win98SE,
> and up. (If you actually disable networking, you install the telnet.exe
> to install the Windows networking.) Windows does now however have a SSH
> anything. I don't know if they ever will, and since they're recent
> statements about OpenSource, Linux and GPL, I doubt they will do
> something like that any time soon.
>
> There are plenty of applications you can buy or download as FREEware.
> Personally I like and use SecureCRT. Which can be coupled with a SFTP
> client. SecureCRT does suppor telnet. Hummingbird has a good suite for
> telnet, I believe it supports SSH, and it should connect to an X Server.
> However it's pricey. Last I heard it was like $700 or so. But there
> are other ways of getting software that will perform the task you need
> with out spending a dime, or with out spending an arm, a leg, and a knee
> cap!
>
> Hope that clears things up for you a little.
> tdh
>
>
> T. Holmes
> Unixtechs.org
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "Real Men use Vi."
>
> * Nadin Merali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010406 11:16]:
> | What is the difference and does every os have ssh? For example windows
> | has a telnet program. Will windows also have a ssh program?
> |
> | Thanks
> |
> | Nadin
