Re: [SLE] How to allow ftp and telnet

From: Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:28:50 -0500

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 03:52 -0800, Jack Reilly wrote:

I have a new Suse 10 installation and want to allow my grandson to
access with ftp any of my files from his remote location. And also
telnet.
I can't remember how to do this and sure would appreciate some help.

In a word, don't. Instead use ssh and scp. Use ssh for a secure login to
the machine and scp to copy files in a secure manner. Use of standard
ftp and telnet are -not- secure and could result in your machine being
broken into.

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Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

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