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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Scott Klement wrote: > One of the major reasons I'd like SSH on my AS/400 is *because* I've got > BSD and Linux machines on my LAN. > > SSH would give me a simple interface to executing commands on those boxes > without the security flaws of rexec/runrmtcmd/telnet and without having to > hard code passwords... I have to agree with you here. I wasn't trying to say that OS/400 *shouldn't* support ssh, but rather that because it *doesn't* support it, it doesn't make any sense from a costs/time perspective to use an AS/400 to do the transfer. But you are right - ssh on OS/400 would be great. I've never understood why people say that OS/400 is so secure when it doesn't even support ssh (sniff, sniff). > In fact, eliminating the unencrypted telnet sessions was the major reason > that I wrote SSL support for the Linux 5250 client. :) I'd love to turn > telnet off completely on all of my FreeBSD boxes, and only allow SSH. I have telnet turned off on all my internet-accessible unix boxen. We have to allow telnet to be routed, though. And you can turn off incoming telnet on FreeBSD using hosts.allow/hosts.deny. You can even doublely (sp?) disable it if you have a stateful firewall for FreeBSD. On second thought you don't need a statefull firewall - just block incoming packets to port 23. You can also comment the telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf. Heck, go ahead and delete /sbin/telnetd if you want. You don't need any of these things to use tn5250 or telnet to the AS/400. Now I really am off topic to this list. Sorry folks. James Rich james@eaerich.com
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