Allmost OT: Re: [lug] telnetd problem

[rm at fabula.de]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:12:13AM -0600, Chris Wade wrote:
> Sorry, deleted too much of the previous thread in my last reply.  When I get
> this set up the way I want it, it will be:
> 
> world -----> cable modem -----> linux gateway/firewall --> local network
> 
> And I will certainly use SSH to get in from the outside world after reading
> the replies here.  Just to make things completely clear, though, is there
> any security risk involved in using telnet between boxes that are behind the
> firewall, where information does not normally get passed out to the world?
> It's a bit academic at this point, but it would help me understand How
> Things Work.

Ok, as long as you trust your local users this sees to be ok. I just made
it a habit to _not_ run tenetd on any box. A friend of mine had it enabled
on his laptop and forgot to remove it before we went to HAL2001 (www.hal2001.net :-)
 ... guess how his box looked after one day :-)))))

 Greetings 

   Ralf