Subject: Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?
To: None <opentrax@email.com>
From: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@mabelode.imrryr.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 12/17/2000 08:52:34
On 977040531 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
opentrax@email.com wrote:
>

>Are there any more features that might make SSH valuable?
>I've been told that strong, user-level encryption is available
>to telnet. So, is adding it by default necessarily a good thing?

Well, ssh has an rsh-like interface which I find more useful than
telnet.  Ssh also has a lot of features over rsh, like -t,
automatically setting up X forwarding, having config files where
you can say `On machine foo log me in as bar', etc.

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