[plug] telnet^H^H^H^H^H^HOpenSSH on Mandrake

[Christian]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Unless you need to access the machine from Windows, use OpenSSH instead.
> It's much more secure and can be automated and configured much more
> flexibly than Telnet. RPMs are available and are drop-ins on Mandrake
> 6.1 (except you need to install the openssl library first on the basic
> distribution - it's also available as an RPM).

There have been bugs found in OpenSSH recently so you *may* have problems
in some rare(ish) circumstances.  Using the non-free SSH package might be
advisable in the short-term although of course make sure it's not compiled
with RSAREF enabled...

Regards,

Christian. 

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