Re: ssh

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Clive Menzies wrote:

> On (16/07/04 15:11), Kenshi Muto wrote:
>  
>
> > To: John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>
> > Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> > From: Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
> > Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:11:35 +0900
> > Subject: Re: ssh
> >
> > At 16 Jul 04 05:00:22 GMT,
> > John Summerfield wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Is there any good reason ssh is _not_ installed?
> > >      
> > ssh is "standard" priority. If you don't skip tasksel, ssh will be
> > installed as default.
> >    
> Interesting that telnet is included in the bare install (before running
> tasksel, deselect or aptitude) - given the security risk of using
> telnet, it would make sense to remove it and perhaps include ssh
> instead?
>  
The telnet client is no security risk, and is very useful for diagnosing mail problem, configuring billion routers (well, some of them) etc.

I didn't run tasksel as last time I did, it pulled in great gobs of stuff I didn't want.

However, I would like ssh (server and client) in the minimum install so as to provide a means of setting up headless boxes.




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John

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