On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:32:17AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote: > Not that I disagree that SSH is more secure than telnet, but telnet has its place > too. Mostly, not on the Internet on a trusted LAN. I work for a company that > deals with hundreds of unix servers on a day to day basis (all over the country), > and they all run telnet. Its not something that can be changed easily, because > they are not our servers, they are our customers. But almost none of them have > telnet accessible from the Internet, you can only get into their networks via > modem. Telnet is well established (there are clients for it preinstalled on most > every OS- save old Mac) and as long as it is used in the right environments, thats > fine. Lets not push for the demise of telnet, lets push for proper education on > when to run it. (and the internet is NOT a place to run it) You forget about malicious users... Anybody can set up a snifer on a corporate network and most of the time the sys/netadmins won't notice. florin -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4