Re: Authentication for telnet.
On Wed 09 Oct 2019 at 07:25:39 (-0700), peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:03:14 +0000
> > It is confusing why you would need to do this to localhost as you
> > could just type "bash" (or dash or zsh or whatever) to get a new
> > shell. So it would help our understanding if you were to explain
> > what your use case is for this new interactive shell session.
>
> Oberon has a client for protocol Telnet and a client for SSH. bash,
> dash, sudo, rlogin and many other tools don't exist in Oberon. I
> avoided discussing this deliberately. For most readers it's an
> annoying digression; for some will cause mental upset.
>
> In most Debian situations, once a user is logged in to the system, a
> shell session is opened without a password. "telnet localhost" is
> analogous to that. "ssh localhost" is rarely used.
Why? sshd is modern and secure. telnetd is ancient and insecure and
ought not to be on the system at all.
> If sitting in a
> public place, be careful that someone isn't watching when you type the
> password.
Why would you be typing a password after typing ssh localhost?
Just type:
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Cheers,
David.
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