I don't have a telnet client installed, and I'd like to know where to get one. However, I've been told telnet is very insecure, and therefore ssh seems like a better option.

The problem is I have just installed a mud, and it is configured to allow connections through telnet to a certain port.

I'd like to know if I can have the telnet server running and connect to it through ssh, or if should just install the telnet client and forget ssh.

Thank you.


[Shogun_]

DO NOT USE TELNET!

Even if all you want to do is logon remotely to a machine in your home, you should use ssh.

SSH stands for Secure SHell.

I don't really use it, but I think you can configure it to use any port you want. If you're using a GUI shh, there should be a port selection thingy somewhere. Find out which port your MUD uses and point your ssh client in that direction.

This might not be that big a deal. Most MUD clients do not have any /home files or really any connection for the MUD users to the regular machine so that a password compromise is really just a problem within the MUD. A MUD is a poor way to try and root a machine, and there are a number of things you should worry about first. However, the best way to run a MUD is to have it run under a user's account and have it broadcast on an unprivleged port above 1024. Most MUD clients are not yet built to deal with ssh'ing into the game, and by even running open services such as a MUD, this shouldn't be a box that security is that great of an issue upon.

You're looking to install the telnet daemon by the way, not the client, that's the other way round. Mandrake I guess has gotten to the point that RedHat has and not installed telnet by default. The Telnet Daemon has to be on the CDs somewhere.

Also, and this is not a concern unless you are planning 200-ish users, but if this box is down in the P2 or below family, the de-encryption of the massive traffic that a MUD running on ssh might create would probably lead to a good bit of lag.


Luck,

Finegan