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Authored by: strider on Jul 17, '02 02:04:06PM

The remote aspect of ntalk does represent a security risk. However, if you only use it as the original poster suggested (ie only talk to people SSH'd into your local machine), just make sure that UDP 517 is allowed from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1 and not from the internet. You are running a firewall right? Someone would have to have have shell access to your box to exploit talk and at that point you have bigger problems than running talk :)



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