telnet

[Rick Stevens]

Darin Peterson wrote:
> How about including the latest message threads instead of modifying old
> ones?

Eh?  I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.  I purge my old
messages so I don't know if Roland hijacked a thread or not.

And we prefer bottom posting here, Darin (as do most Linux-oriented
lists).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:04 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: telnet
> 
> 
> roland brouwers wrote:
> 
>>I have a server with FD3
>>I want to telnet from the workstations to this server.
>>We have WS with Xppro, Win98 an WinMe
>>Everything goes well with XP and W98
>>With WinMe, the workstation hangs after login and the display of
>>lastlogin
>>If I enter Ctrl+C, I get into the shell and I can continue manually.
>>I don't find any firewall on the pc's. I disabled Norton virus, it has
>>no firewall.
>>What does Me that XP an W98 don't?
> 
> 
> First off, using telnet is a bad idea as it is completely insecure
> (everything including passwords are sent in cleartext).  This isn't an
> issue if your network has no gateway to the internet, but I'd highly
> recommend you stop using telnet and use ssh.  There are a number of free
> ssh clients for Windows, the most popular being "putty".  Do a google
> search for that, install it and use it.  Disable telnet completely.
> 
> Now, as to why ME behaves differently, I suspect it has to do with the
> terminal emulation in its telnet protocol.  One of the last things a
> login does is set the prompt string and many systems will "eat" the
> first prompt, just due to the way they set up the connections.  I'll bet
> that it's not necessary for a "CTRL-C", but a simple "ENTER" would get
> you the prompt.
> 
> Can you fix it?  Probably not.
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