[Info-vax] Is Eisner down?
David Froble
davef at tsoft-inc.com
Thu Dec 5 16:28:09 EST 2013
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.
>
>> 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? :-)
>
> bill
>
>
Which dog don't you trust, or .....
You don't have to trust the wife, she's always in charge.
:-)
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