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To further promote online security, the use of telnet to make inbound
connections to the University network was replaced recently. Telnet
sends account names and passwords in the clear text, allowing anyone
who can see the traffic to pick out the information, a process known
as “sniffing.”
A much more secure method, known as SSH, or Secure Shell, is the
recommended alternative to Telnet. It protects account names and
passwords by encrypting them before transmission. The University
has licensed a version of SSH for use on its machines in the Mathews
General Purpose Lab. Instructions on using the campus SSH client
are online at http://www.unf.edu/dept/its/manuals/ssh_telnet.pdf.
If you are working form home and do not have SSH, it can be downloaded
from SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe
There are other free clients available from the Internet, such as
PuTTY and OpenSSH.
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