SSH is active. How do you use it? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 7:25 PM Subject: Re: XINETD
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 4:12 pm, John Salamone wrote: > > Dave, > > > > I tried it all and it did not work. Could it be that I have to do something > > to the firewall? My network is set up as so: > > > > DSL cable modem which connects to my router / firewall which connects to > > win 98 machine and a duelboot w2k server/RH linux 8.0 machine > <snip> > > could very well be. For starters (now that we've gone through all this :) it's > in your best interest not to use telnet. Use ssh instead (which can also be > enabled doing chkconfig sshd on) it's secure amongst other cool features > you'll use later) telnet is OK if it's just you on a local network and you're > not using it to go to or from the outside world (in general, don't use it, it > sends your username and pasword in clear text, too easy to sniff, thanks for > the login) > > are you trying to telnet (err, connect, see above :-) to a local machine from > a local machine or are you trying to come from the outside world back into > your home network? > > --Dave > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
