The reason for installing ssh in this case was for troubleshooting,
although higher security would be a positive side effect.
He reports trouble from an unknown source, and telnetd is "involved".
Installing ssh would allow comparisons of the failure modes with different
network login clients.
If
Colin Watson wrote:
>
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (hmm, I appear to
> have that memorized - I end up grabbing it any time I'm at a public
> Windows-based Internet terminal).
>
way cool. a mud addict friend of mine always used putty, now i see why :)
you can even do x-
On Sun 07 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Search google for putty, if you need an ssh client for windows.
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (hmm, I appear to
> have that memorized - I end up grabbing it any time I'm at a public
>
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun 07 Jan 2001, Eray Ozkural wrote:
>> About having telnet enabled: everybody on the campus knows how to use telnet
>> but would be very surprised I didn't let them connect easily from windows
>> clients. For me, using telnet is of course a bit insecure
On Sun 07 Jan 2001, Eray Ozkural wrote:
>
> About having telnet enabled: everybody on the campus knows how to use telnet
> but would be very surprised I didn't let them connect easily from windows
> clients. For me, using telnet is of course a bit insecure but when I'm
> not able to use an ssh cli
Eray Ozkural wrote:
> About having telnet enabled: everybody on the campus knows how to use telnet
> but would be very surprised I didn't let them connect easily from windows
> clients. For me, using telnet is of course a bit insecure but when I'm
> not able to use an ssh client... it's easier.
We
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:25:54PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> Debian has always exhibited this behavior for me. There's a simple
> workaround: don't log in as root.
>
> I don't know which is more distasteful: That you have telnet enabled, or
> that you have enabled remote root logins via telnet
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 12:04:14AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet borg
> Trying 139.179.21.143...
> Connected to borg.cs.bilkent.edu.tr.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Debian GNU/Linux woody borg.cs.bilkent.edu.tr
> login: root
> Password:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo
Eray Ozkural (exa) (2001-01-07 00:04:14 +0200) :
> How should I debug this?
One thing I did once was rename /bin/bash as bash-real, and write a
#!/bin/bash-real wrapper that logged everything (yeah, I did not know
of the "set -x" trick at that time). It might be dirty, but it might
just work. P
9 matches
Mail list logo
