Re: [UUG/MLUG] Re: Red Hat and Mirror site

[David Drum <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Quoth Bryan Venable:

> As far as becoming root remotely, you don't necessarily *have* to
> use ssh to login as a regular user before becoming root using the su
> command - you can use telnet.  SSH is quite a bit more secure, though,
> of course, and thus comes highly recommended.

I hope what you are saying is, "telnet is completely insecure, because
passwords traverse the net in the clear, and ssh is completely secure,
unless your private key has been compromised or the attacker is an alien
that thinks in prime number combinatorics."

Regards,

David K. Drum
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