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Warnings? - xinetd
Authored by: ssevenup on Sep 14, '04 11:41:07AM

Won't this approach cause the Sharing/Firewall control panel to complain that "other software" is controlling the firewall? Probably not a deal breaker but I thought it worth mentioning.

I think an xinetd rule is the better approach to this problem anyway unless your really interested in looking at who is knocking.

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Warnings? - xinetd
Authored by: jstripli on Sep 14, '04 01:49:04PM
I apologize for my ignorance, but what rules are you referring to? The man page on xinetd is not much help :-/ You are not simply referring to the hosts.deny file, are you?

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Warnings? - xinetd
Authored by: gourls on Sep 14, '04 06:15:00PM
That's really smart thinking, but listen to the guy. Who wants illegal stuff crashing your Mac? And SSH is an interesting name for a-uh-illegal thing?

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Warnings? - xinetd
Authored by: tobyc on Sep 15, '04 01:46:54AM

What do you mean illegal? SSH is perfectly legal and has been a part of OSX since the beginning.



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Warnings? - xinetd
Authored by: Jaharmi on Oct 27, '04 11:32:21PM

SSH is the secure shell. It's what you're enabling when you turn on "Remote Login" in System Preferences > Sharing.

It's essentially a more secure version of Telnet, if you're familiar with that, and also provides scp/sftp (secure copy and secure FTP) services. You can use them from the command line, or from GUI applications like Fugu.



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