vpn on FC1

[Brian Chase]

I agree, for selected services, just run the secure versions of IMAPS and 
POP3S(993/995), and SSH(22) and open up the perspective ports on your 
firewall.  Forget telnet, it's superceded by SSH.

If you find you're doing lots of other things that are inherently 
insecure like XDCMP for X terminals between sites and need a VPN for 
Fedora Core, I'd suggest OpenVPN.

	http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/

Cheers,

Brian



If you find you need lo

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Sa, den 27.03.2004 schrieb Pierre De Boeck um 21:53:
> 
>>	Hi all,
>>
>>We need secure remote access to a few TCP servers running
>>on our FC1 host. These include pop3,imap,pserver(cvs) and
>>telnetd. The clients are both based on XP and FC1. 
>>
>>I think that SSH is perfect for that task but I first want
>>to be sure that it will run fine on FC1.
> 
> 
> Do you want VPN or SSH connect? SSH of course works without problems on
> Fedora, both as server as well as client. You can use SSH for tunneling
> too, as a "lightweight" VPN.
> 
> But I would highly recommend that you switch off every telnet daemon!
> And just use POP3S and IMAPS instead of the normal daemons without
> SSL/TLS encryption. Actual clients on Windows[tm] and Linux do support
> these secured services.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> 

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