[Info-vax] Is Eisner down?

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In article <bg9v5uF32upU3 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server2.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>In article <l7o6ki$h0e$1 at solani.org>,
>	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon schrieb:
>> 
>>> I have to say it again.  Why on earth would anyone run telnet on any
>>> server?  What can it possibly offer that is worth the risk?
>> 
>> Less hassle than the mess which comes with ssh/ssl?
>
>Well, I don;t remember doing it on VMS as our last VMS box went away
>before SSH was so common, but I owuld hope it is no harder than what
>it takes to set up SSHD on any other box, which is trivial.

Aye, it's just as trivial, if not moreso, on VMS.



>> And if the network is "internal", what risk?
>
>Define "internal".  My home network is just me, my wife and two dogs
>and I don't let them run telnet either.  As for "internal" non-home
>networks.  The wireless at the University is not encrypted.  Can
>you figure out what that means?  :-)

The problems comes with/from the pointy-clicky crowd using PuTTY --
especially, on WEENDOZE.  In my other, musical, life outside of VMS,
I have to deal with permitting radio DJs to have access to the radio
station functions for their shows and configuring PuTTY on WEENDOZE 
is always the bane of getting them connected. 

>From the command line, even on VMS, it's: ssh user at host -- tough, eh?

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