Re: Is it safe to install a Fedora rpm on Red Hat 9?

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:03:48 -0800, Blake West wrote:

...And the obligatory warning: don't put telnet on a server on the
Internet that's not being very well protected by a firewall from hosts
other than the ones you trust accessing it or you won't have a working
system in about ten minutes. Use SSH instead if possible.

Thanks for the pointer to SSH. Somehow I had never used this before.
The service was already running on the box. I found PUTTY to connect
from my windows box. Does just what I need.

Cool.

Encryption is your friend.
.

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