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From: Rachel Greenham
Roy Culley wrote:
rachel.greenham@enetgroup.co.uk said:
One of the main features of YaST is its ability to be run over a telnet session on a remote box. ie: Without X. Will YaST2 do this? If not, please *never* remove YaST.
Don't use telnet. Use ssh. Secure, X tunneling and compression if using a slow connection.
yes, quite, I should, if the remote box is off-site, but again, that starts to require more of the j.random.box I'm sitting at. Still, most of the time though I only want to do it across the LAN, but not necessarily from a machine with lots of lovely stuff installed. I tend to stick the Telnet applet on my Linux boxen, so that I know I can get at it from any machine with a browser and Java (eg: any random Windows box with just the broken basic telnet client). I think there's a Java ssh applet but last time I tried it it crashed badly.
There are a bunch of Java based SSH clients, goto www.ssh.com and read their FAQ, there is about 5-10 Java SSH clients listed with links to their home page for download. Upload it to a public web server and you can use it from any computer connected to the Internet or Network (what ever the case may be) All of these client should work with OpenSSH. If they give you a choice use SSH 1 protocol.
I guess I'd modify the degree of my paranoia if I were working on more high-profile sites.
That or increase your caffeine intake : ) Seriously allot of script kiddies go from the low profile site, for the basic fact that security seems to be layed back, plus they ussually don't have a big legal team if they get caught. A couple networks we work on are really low profile, one was my home network and someone got in installed a packet sniffer and snagged about 2 root passwords on the local network and about 7 root password on remote machines, this was not a good thing. Luckily the person sniffing the network was my freind looking for odd traffic, but it sure got my heart pumping when I seen 110 megs of ASCII dumps of the local lan without any knowledge of him doing this. It can be done ..... easliy I might add... Once you get it setup and going ssh is just as convient and easy to use as telnet. You can even find Unix and Windows client that are small enough to fit on floppy disk if need be.
-- Rachel
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