Just an added note for those working in mixed-platform environments. Many of the windows products come only with telnet and ftp, but putty is an easy download and a nice interface to use for secure shell on windows based machines when tagging into your LINUX servers remotely. Garrett Jima wrote: >On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dave Alitz wrote: > > >>I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but telnet isn't a particularly secure >>service. If your not on a private network that you trust completely, it's >>not a good idea. It sends all communication in plain text, including the >> >> _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list