[16870] in North American Network Operators' Group
secure router access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri May 15 00:26:18 1998
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 May 1998 21:14:52 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 00:21:42 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Michael Dillon writes:
> On Fri, 15 May 1998, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> > >If you were using ssh for secure access then the answer would be to find a
>
> > It is just as easy to download a kerberized versions of NCSA telnet or
> > NiftyTelnet, for the mac or pc.
>
> No it's not. I gave a URL for the Mac and Windows ssh clients; you didn't.
URL or no, I've played with both kerberized NCSA telnet and SSH --
anyone who claims that setting up and maintaining a KDC is as easy as
the "point and shoot" rlogin replacement portion of SSH hasn't really
tried both possibilities. SSH is far simpler -- its almost foolproof,
and it requires no infrastructure commitment to run.
Perry
