Re: [ILUG] Logging as root

From: Padraig Brady (padraig.brady at domain corvil.com)
Date: Fri 27 Sep 2002 - 16:58:02 IST


Stephen Shirley wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:42:32PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
>
>>You really don't want to do that. In fact telnet (and ftp for that matter)
>>should be banned. Log in as a normal user and su -
>
>
> Telnet, yeah definetely. Ftp on the other hand is still a helluva lot
> faster than scp in some cases (e.g. here in work, it's ~10 times faster
> to skynet using ftp than scp).

Wow you must have a large link and a really slow CPU as one/both
ends of the connection. Adding "-c blowfish" option to the scp
command should help.

I was more referring to the firewall busting protocol used by default
byt ftp.

Padraig.



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