ssh/telnet fedora 4

Richard Hubbard rhubby at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 1 06:23:02 EDT 2005


telnet is NOT installed by default on Fedora 4, (it's
on the cd, so it's an easier install than
downloading).  Even after the install, the xinet.d
script disables telnet by default.

the rationality is that telnet is horribly insecure
(all info is sent in plain text, etherreal can pull
out the password in an instant.  capture the traffic,
find one of the machines involved, then i think the
menu item is 'follow tcp conversation' or something
similar, and out comes loginname and passwordD).

ssh is there by default, you may want to use that
instead.

--- "David W. Aquilina" <david at starkindler.us> wrote:

> 
> SSH should be installed and enabled by default,
> IIRC. 
> 
> xinetd should have been pulled in by telnet-server,
> assuming you were using yum/up2date to install it. 
> 
> -- 
> David W. Aquilina
> david at starkindler.us
> 


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