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Originally posted by Bozos of Bones:
Erm... you probably shouldn't have done that, because Linux uses telnet(telnet is on all OSs) in different ways, one of them could be(depending on settings) file transfer on LAN, and P2P network. I don't know if you do any of that, but try and read up on what it's actually for before killing it.
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Well I hear there are a lot of security issues with it and at the moment I'm not doing anything you mentioned. I knew what it did. Once I do file transfer on lan either samba says I need it or it won't and I just use samba. It's only 800kb extracted so the download is very quick if I happen to need it. And it's just a little security and making my hd clean to not have anything on it I don't know how to properly secure or I don't use at all. There were no dependencies so I'm ok for now [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Bungleau:
Telnet is actually quite useful... that's one of the things that can let you access one machine from another. I use it frequently at work, and here in the home office when I want to do something on my RedHat box, but don't want to walk all the way over there to log in. I'd put it back... the security problems come in when someone can telnet in and guess an account and password. Make sure those are secure first...
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Does it allow connecting to windows boxes as well? Passwords are basic secure now I think, I haven't done anything particular with it except what I got in the installation progress. edit: not easy to guess though
[ 08-26-2004, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: philip ]