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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > I dialed as 'root' then switched terminals and logged in as 'user'
> > and ssh followed by the login@URL tells me 'permission denied'.
> > Telnet 'cannot open connection'.  I had already done chmod +x ssh
> > for it to be executable by everyone (it would not work even as root
> > before this).

I forgot to mention that I was trying to ssh and telnet from within kermit 
(so as to use Kermit file transfer on the same connection).

Today I tried plain ssh without kermit as user, and it worked, eventually,
but gave me a row of error messages in the process:
/bin/sh: /dev/null:  Permission denied (several times)

Plain telnet also works.

Kermit plus telnet spends a lot of time on DNS lookup and reverse DNS 
lookup but eventually gets me there.  Yesterday I had given up waiting.


I can do ftp from within Kermit with no problems, so I guess I can ssh 
without kermit and connect a second time to do file transfer if I want to 
login as 'user' for extra security.  This takes more time than kermit with 
file transfer.

If I wanted to use Kermit, would it be more secure to ssh as 'root' or 
telnet as 'user'?    I have been telnetting for years and nobody has yet 
stolen my password that I know of.  Modem connection.

Sindi