telnet, ftp, and Fedora core 3

Eric Waguespack ewaguespack at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 05:32:53 UTC 2005


if you need to transfer binaries from a windows box, use winscp
instead of ftp... it only requires that ssh be enabled, it is on
sourceforge.net.






On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:28:23 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 19:51 -0800, Betty Chang wrote:
> > Hi -- how do I get fedora core3 to be configured to run telnet and ftp
> > servers?
> >
> > I've played around with the Services configuration screen, and the security
> > settings, but somehow I cannot get an
> > ftp or a telnet going.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > BEtty
> >
> >
> >
> Someone else has already told you about vsftp.
> 
> I do NOT recommend telnet because of security.  FC3 (as most
> distributions of Linux) has ssh already installed.  To enable it simply
> "# chkconfig sshd on" followed by "# service sshd start"
> 
> Then with any ssh client you can connect similar to telnet but in secure
> encrypted mode.
> 
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