Re: SSH pam

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

glen@gomotech.com (Glen S Mehn) wrote:
>With ssh you have to connect with a secure client, which you can get on
>any unix, and there's a free one for win32, called putty, which is very
>nice. Supports telnet, too.
>
>The problem with telnet is that nayone who wants to sniff your network
>can get every packet decrypted from plain old text. So they watch you
>type username: pass and get it. Or if they're really great they watch
>for you to type su: pass and then they've got your root.
>
>Bad thing. And really easy to do. Putty is ~200k to d/l, so it's pretty
>easy to get anywhere-- I* think you can even run it off of a floppy...

The URL for PuTTY is:

  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty.html

I agree, it's an extremely nice program.

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
Trinity College, Cambridge, and Computer Science         [riva.ucam.org]