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to: Andy Ball
from: Sean Dennis
date: 2004-10-28 12:03:42
subject: Telnet Vs SSH

Hello, Andy.

28 Oct 04 01:19, you wrote to me:

 AB> Telnet through an SSH tunnel?  Effective, yet somehow perverse (but it
 AB> makes sense if your BBS machine lacks support for SSH itself).  I do
 AB> something similar, tunnelling VNC through SSH to control computers at
 AB> a remote site.

I could install SSH on the BBS machine (it's running OS/2), but it's rather
difficult and time-consuming to do.  It's easier when I had a Linux box
running... you just SSH into the Linux box and over to the OS/2 machine. 
It was a matter of convience for me. 

Later,
Sean

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