[Asterisk-Users] telnet and Root

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 11:59, Steve Szmidt wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Walt Reed" <asterisk at linuxguy.com>
> > To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:13 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] telnet and Root
> >
> > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 08:40:43AM -0700, Chris Shaw said:
> > > > >...Today there's no valid reason to use telnet over ssh.
> > > >
> > > > Was there ever a valid reason? Maybe export restrictions on crypto?
> > > > I've never EVER used telnet or rlogin, SSH is so much nicer anyway...
> > >
> > > Yeah. Some of us were around before ssh existed. :-)
> 
> Plus it's still a good tool for talking to various services like a mailserver 
> to debug connections. (You can specify the port to connect to.)

Outside of SMTP and www, what are you doing with a open port to use
telnet with? Pop3 is BAD, IMAP is BAD. You should be using the encrypted
versions of all of these. Anything you can't secure directly should be
tunneled via port forwarding with a ssh command.

BTW, get used to that need as the more people move to wireless networks.
Think how easy it is to roll into a cafe with wireless hotspot and
capture usernames and passwords for all those checking email.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>