Re: [[cobalt-users] Server Hacked?]

["Richard E. Perlotto II" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Telnet has no security, SSH has some.  SSH provides one of the strongest 
secure channels that you can use that is free.  Soon, there should be 
a SSH v2 available which will fix most if not all the holes in the
current free SSH v1.

You could move to S/Key, or some other form of single use password.  Again,
if you have the bucks, there is more available.  If you are on a tight
budget, continue to look at the free stuff.


Richard

Mike Vanecek wrote:
> 
> Telnet is weak and SSH is weak. Yet I sometimes need to telnet in to my Qube.
> So what is the answer?
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:14:12 -0800, Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> :>At 12:09 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
> :>
> :>>It is not that telnet is that insecure. It is the people who use it.
> :>
> :>Every time you use telnet to log in as admin, you send your admin password
> :>over the Internet in plain text.
> :>
> :>Every time you use telnet to su into root, you send your root password over
> :>the Internet in plain text.
> :>
> :>Yes, telnet IS insecure all by itself.
> :>
> :>Jeff
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:42:04 -0500, "Jeffrey Ferguson" <yogi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> :>SSH is about as secure as a cheap pad lock with a burgler holding a pair of
> :>bolt cutters.
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>
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