Thank you for your advice, but I just want to ask you one more question.
Why is Telnet not secure? What kind of security problems will I face if I
do use Net::Telnet to do so.
The other solution I was thinking of is LWP, but I am not sure how that
would work.
Kelvin
-Original Message-
Kelvin,
Telnet doesn't use any kind of encryption in it's transfers so anyone
"sniffing" your data stream would not have any problems pulling things out
like your telnet login and password along with any of the data you send back
and forth. On the other hand SSH I believe uses 128 bit encryption
Telnet is not considered secure because a password is transferred over the
network in plaintext. On a protected network this is sometimes not a
concern. However, if you created a special login on the Unix machine that
instead of executing a login shell performed 'cat yourfile' and closed the
connec
THanks that is very clear.
No, we do not have a web server on the unix box. My manager told me to just
write to CGI program on my machine and test it there and after it is good to
go he will put it on our web server and it would be avilable for the LAN
users in this office. Eventually we woul
When using the DBI connect method under MySql you must supply the hostname
as a parameter. Is it permissible to pass an IP address instead of a DNS
hostname?
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