unable to connect to Yellow Dog Linux machine through telnet

[Ben Ricker]

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:07, RON FLORY wrote:
> Timothy.Cappiello@gd-ais.com wrote:

>   ssh is nice, secure and all that rot, but its a bit of overkill
> on a private local network.

This is a rather problematic statement. If you have a private local
network NOT connected to the Internet, then the year is 1978. And its
not. Any boxes that can be accessed from the Internet can be hacked.
After hacking, a packet sniffer is installed and Voila! All password
being tossed around the network are there for the hackers enjoyment.

All 50 of our internal servers run SSH. Telnet is left on, but only for
emergencies (i.e., when SSH somehow fails).

Ben Ricker