Re: Silly questions on FC4 - TELNET Service.


Yes, and I did select the Telnet service that I agree, is not automatically
setup...
But all I did, is to enable it... but it seems not to do anything ! ?

I just need this, for somebody else can reach the machine.... by distance ??

I will try to instal it

Thanks

You are much better off using ssh instead of telnet especially if you want
to access a machine remotely over the Internet. SSH does everything that
telnet does plus much more. Telnet is a huge security problem, it does
everything in the clear. SSH uses an encrypted tunnel so you don't have
to worry about someone eavesdropping on your connection. SSH also has an
option of using RSA authentication instead of password authentication
which is a much better. In addition to providing you with a remote shell,
ssh does the following for you,

X Forwarding, This allows you to display an X Window through the tunnel.

Port forwarding, you can tunnel IP ports through the ssh connection,
useful for using flexlm licenses remotely.

Remote execution, just like rexec except it happens through an secure
connection and you can do it over the Internet.

SSH was installed by default on your systems so all you have to ssh from
one box to another is

ssh system_name (or IP address)

If you want to do X forwarding do,

ssh -X system_name




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