Re: About networks with windows and linux

["eagle" <eagle mantrafreenet com>]

Hello !
If that thing is regarding the security( the r login stuff ( I should have
guessed)) can I even stop all the user or users of a specific group to use even
telnet.
and if that is done as it is done  how will i use tools like SATAN etc from
remote
hope that is possible
bye 
eagle
^_^


 On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Kalum / Grendel wrote: > On  Fri, 13
Apr 2001, eagle commented thusly, >  > > One thing I noticed is that one cannot
rlogin  as root   though he can  > > login as some other user and do some thing
like > > su -l root
> > and work as root.
> 
> Its for security reasons, you do not want rlogin to send your root
> password in clear text if some egghead intercepts it with a packet filter,
> the results of what he might do to your system might not be very nice, so
> normally to login as root please use ssh which is a secure replacement.
> 
> > Thanks once again I will try the samba server and see if it works(it 
> > should i guess).
> 
> You should get plenty of help here about this, so try it :)
> 
> > I wanted the network in such a way that all the transactions on the net 
> > that is the sending and receiving of packets are done through linux but 
> > the packets be made available to the windows machine surfing the web
> > I don't know if that is what they call the router as.
> 
> You will need ip masqurading setup too I think in your linux box. 
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Grendel
> 
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