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Telnet & putty.exe configuration
Name: Tek Date: August 18, 2002 at 16:52:54 Pacific
Comment:
Can any one help me how to access, setup telnet and learn Linux through telnet? I have putty.exe on my desktop but I am unable to configure that out. Any help please.
Name: 3Dave Date: August 19, 2002 at 06:39:40 Pacific
Reply:
Give SSH a go. It's more secure than telnet, easy to set up (if any configuration is actually needed) and it comes with most distros these days.
If it is already installed, try #/etc/init.d/sshd start to start the service, give putty your linux IP and port (22 for SSH) and all going well you should be able to log in and get a prompt. You can then learn linux to your hearts content!=o)
Summary: Ok. Now I understand a bit more. Well let me first ask why are you using telnet and not ssh? ssh is a secure login from anywhere because all the data passed back and forth is encrypted. Password and ...
Summary: Hi, John and other folks above, My sincerely appreciation to you for the work-around. Redhat Linux 7.2 has the same feature in telnet and ftp and configuring services by /usr/sbin/setup will work, too...
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