HELP: how to enable telnet?

[Joaquin Menchaca]

Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> On Monday 17 January 2005 02:39 pm, Joshua Tinnin 
> <krinklyfig at spymac.com> wrote:
> ...
> 
>>>However, later I want to use Windows XP/2K3.  They have decent ssh
>>>client support through tools like putty, but I don't know any good
>>>sshd solution on Windows.
>>
>>I don't know if installing a new OS is an option, but any home
>>Windows OS pre-2000 is not secure in the first place (i.e., ME, 98,
>>95). I would not use any of them if security is a consideration.
>>
>>BTW, PuTTY works very well, as does installing Cygwin so you can use
>>its tools (though that is a bit overkill, maybe).
> 
> 
> Wait, I'm sorry, I think I misunderstood you. If you want to run a 
> secure daemon on Windows instead of on *nix, I'm not sure, actually. 
> You might be able to do this with Cygwin, but I've only used it to 
> login to sshd on a *nix machine.
> 
> - jt

Oh.  At home I have 11 computers: 2 sparcs, 2 macs, 8 pcs (mix of PIVs, 
AMDs, and C3s).  They run *nix OSes (SuSE, Fedora, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac 
OS X, Tenon) and of course Winows XP/2K3.  I don't bother with older 
OSes, except for experimentation, e.g. learning how older OSes are 
better supported by UNIX than Windows for both performance and security.

Between computers, I want to have interoperability between them (print, 
file share, X, remoting, rtools/telnet/ftp).  For insecure solutions, I 
was interesting in playing with SSL, SSH, Kerberos, and IPSec.  Also, 
looking into secure single sign-on facility.

However, I am far from getting the experiments off the ground.  I am 
just barely above getting the darn things to work, with drivers, wi-fi, 
bluetooth, etc.  Many companies still uncooperative with open source 
communities, a matter I hope to help proactively.

In the mean time, I'll get a handle on SSH facilities (as well as 
getting hardware to work).

Oh, lastly, Cygwin is cool.  I'm interested in both cygwin and 
non-cygwin (mingw) solutions for both client/server.  I tried all the 
client tools, both putty and ssh, both work well.  Never knew that sshd 
was working so well. :->

Wish there was a way though to redirect the Windows desktop as a X 
client ;->

   -- joaquin