[H-GEN] How safe is SSH on the internet?

[Paul Gearon]

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Stuart Longland wrote:

> | Oh, and make sure all the rlogin legacy stuff is turned off.
>
> Yes, I might use this over the LAN, but not on the internet.  I indend
> to keep rsh, rlogin & friends well out of reach of the outside world.

Are you sure you need them locally?

SSH is a rather powerful little beast.  It seems to do everything.  The
only time I've needed rsh, rlogin, etc, in recent times has been for some
old Windows apps which need them (eXcursion, for instance).  Fortunately,
most modern windows applications which are aware of remote *nix servers
like this are also aware of SSH, which reduces the need for non-ssh
servers even more.  Either that or they have been superceded by modern
OS applications which know about SSH (I much prefer XFree86 for Windows
than eXcursion).



Regards,
Paul Gearon

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