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Re: One time user access



On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:08:41PM -0800, Caleb Shay wrote:
| On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 21:08, Scott Henson wrote:
| > I was wondering if there was anyway to create a user that could only
| > login once and then was invalid.  See the thing is that I have to use
| > telnet to login from a windows machine to do some work with the gcc.  I
| > dont want to have to expose my machine to unnecessary security risks, so
| > I was wondering if I could create something like one time login name and
| > password pair, so that even if someone did obtain the user name/password
| > pair from sniffing off the net, they wouldnt be able to use if cause it
| > would be deleted off the system.  I dont know how clear I have been or
| > if it is even possible, but any suggestions would be appreciated. 
|
| Why not just use ssh and a windows ssh client like putty?
| http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

I second this.  Yesterday (or the day before) a new release was
announced that now supports X forwarding.

-D
 
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