RE: SSH or Telnet?

From: Asenchi (asenchi@asenchi.com)
Date: 03/28/02 

From: "Asenchi" <asenchi@asenchi.com>
To: "kerberus" <kerberus@microbsd.net>, "Adam" <adamtuttle@sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:44:08 -0500

I am a little surprised by this as well. Encrypted passwords to me would
mean at least a little more secure than clear text passwords. Anything that
can be sniffed as easy as telnet should not be used.

wow, now i have seen everything! :)

asenchi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of kerberus
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 4:39 PM
To: Adam
Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: SSH or Telnet?

Am I actually reading this on a security list of all places ???? Are you
actually suggesting the user use something that sends data over the wire
such as the username, and password in clear text usable ?? Doesnt the
thought of this scare you??? you telnet to remote system, someone
bewtween you and remote system, say at your ISP is sniffing the wire for
whatever reason, as your logging into the remote box, and guess what,
now they have your access to that same box. Dont use telnet, it is very
insecure, use ssh where everything is encrypted!!

On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 16:33, Adam wrote:
> I would highly suggest that you use telnet. As long as you keep it updated
> and patched you shouldnt have any problems with it..
>
> Adam
> EcommIS.net
> "Designing Your Future"

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