ssh/telnet fedora 4

[anthonyriga]

That makes sense. Sniffing telnet is too easy. I
tested it using Ethereal and getting txt password is
so easy. 
 I noticed though when Cisco, Alkatel etc.. techs are
loggin into routers and stuff they are always using
telnet. Would it not make more sense for a company
like Cisco that their systems meet these strict Dept
of Defense standards thats what they said in a Cisco
class I took not use something that easy to hack? Why
dosent Cisco push some of these guys use SSh or
something. Or get rid of telnet altogether. 

--- Richard Hubbard <rhubby at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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