Re: HELP: how to enable telnet?

From: Nikolas Britton (freebsd_at_nbritton.org)
Date: 01/18/05

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To: Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net>

    Joaquin Menchaca wrote:

    > Joshua Tinnin wrote:
    >
    >> On Monday 17 January 2005 02:39 pm, Joshua Tinnin
    >> <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote:
    >> ...
    >>
    >>>> However, later I want to use Windows XP/2K3. They have decent ssh
    >>>> client support through tools like putty, but I don't know any good
    >>>> sshd solution on Windows.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> I don't know if installing a new OS is an option, but any home
    >>> Windows OS pre-2000 is not secure in the first place (i.e., ME, 98,
    >>> 95). I would not use any of them if security is a consideration.
    >>>
    >>> BTW, PuTTY works very well, as does installing Cygwin so you can use
    >>> its tools (though that is a bit overkill, maybe).
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Wait, I'm sorry, I think I misunderstood you. If you want to run a
    >> secure daemon on Windows instead of on *nix, I'm not sure, actually.
    >> You might be able to do this with Cygwin, but I've only used it to
    >> login to sshd on a *nix machine.
    >>
    >> - jt
    >
    >
    > Oh. At home I have 11 computers: 2 sparcs, 2 macs, 8 pcs (mix of
    > PIVs, AMDs, and C3s). They run *nix OSes (SuSE, Fedora, FreeBSD,
    > Solaris, Mac OS X, Tenon) and of course Winows XP/2K3. I don't bother
    > with older OSes, except for experimentation, e.g. learning how older
    > OSes are better supported by UNIX than Windows for both performance
    > and security.
    >
    > Between computers, I want to have interoperability between them
    > (print, file share, X, remoting, rtools/telnet/ftp). For insecure
    > solutions, I was interesting in playing with SSL, SSH, Kerberos, and
    > IPSec. Also, looking into secure single sign-on facility.
    >
    > However, I am far from getting the experiments off the ground. I am
    > just barely above getting the darn things to work, with drivers,
    > wi-fi, bluetooth, etc. Many companies still uncooperative with open
    > source communities, a matter I hope to help proactively.
    >
    > In the mean time, I'll get a handle on SSH facilities (as well as
    > getting hardware to work).
    >
    > Oh, lastly, Cygwin is cool. I'm interested in both cygwin and
    > non-cygwin (mingw) solutions for both client/server. I tried all the
    > client tools, both putty and ssh, both work well. Never knew that
    > sshd was working so well. :->
    >
    > Wish there was a way though to redirect the Windows desktop as a X
    > client ;->

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