[Mac OS X TeX] OffTopic - Telnet / remote login in X.1

[Hemant Bhargava]

<x-flowed>got it - thanks! Actually I wanted to use ssh with pre-X.1 and it didn't 
support it, forcing me to use telnet. so my first instinct with X.1 was 
also to try telnet.

scp - that's something I need to learn about.

- Hemant

--On Thursday, October 4, 2001 16:48 -0500 David Wagner 
<wagner at math.uh.edu> wrote:

>> 1. I was getting set up to install TeXShop - right after I had upgraded
>> to OSX.1. However, now I can no longer telnet into my Mac from a remote
>> machine -- I keep getting a "connection refused" message. I have
>> verified, of course, that I have the correct privileges set up to allow
>> remote login.
>
> You should not use telnet because it sends the user name and password in
> the clear--someone with a network sniffer could pick these up and get
> access to any machine on which this user name and password are valid.
>
> Use ssh instead.  Also learn to use scp instead of ftp.
>
> David wagner
>
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