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MacOSX-TeX Digest #116 - Thursday, October 4, 2001
OffTopic - Telnet / remote login in X.1
by "Hemant K. Bhargava"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OffTopic - Telnet / remote login in X.1
by "Nicholas Riley"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OffTopic - Telnet / remote login in X.1
by "David Wagner"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OffTopic - Telnet / remote login in X.1
by "Hemant Bhargava"
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Subject: OffTopic - Telnet / remote login in X.1
From: "Hemant K. Bhargava"
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 17:23:54 -0400
Hi -
I apologize for this off-topic mail, but I know there must be a very =
simple
answer ...
1. I was getting set up to install TeXShop - right after I had upgraded to =
OSX.1. However, now I can no longer telnet into my Mac from a remote
machine -- I keep getting a "connection refused" message. I have verified, =
of course, that I have the correct privileges set up to allow remote =
login.
I wonder if others experienced this problem on upgrading to X.1
2. As an aside, I've also found that I can't do a "wget" to download files =
(and that this doesn't exist under /usr/bin) whereas it worked perfectly
well under X.0 .. so I can tell that certain things have changed.
- Hemant
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Hemant K. Bhargava, Penn State University (Tel: 814-865-6253)
Professor, Management Science and Information Systems
http://www.smeal.psu.edu/~bhargava/General/contact.html
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OffTopic - Telnet / remote login in X.1
From: "Nicholas Riley"
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:27:44 -0500
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:23:54PM -0400, Hemant K. Bhargava wrote:
> 1. I was getting set up to install TeXShop - right after I had upgraded =
to
> OSX.1. However, now I can no longer telnet into my Mac from a remote
> machine -- I keep getting a "connection refused" message. I have =
verified,
> of course, that I have the correct privileges set up to allow remote =
login.
>
> I wonder if others experienced this problem on upgrading to X.1
You must have never upgraded from 10.0 to 10.0.1 or later, or else
manually enabled telnet by editing /etc/inetd.conf. Telnet was just
in 10.0 as a temporary measure; before (Public Beta) and since, the
remote login option turns on the SSH server.
> 2. As an aside, I've also found that I can't do a "wget" to download =
files
> (and that this doesn't exist under /usr/bin) whereas it worked perfectly =
> well under X.0 .. so I can tell that certain things have changed.
Try curl -O instead of wget - which was replaced because of licensing
issues.
--
=3DNicholas Riley | =
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OffTopic - Telnet / remote login in X.1
From: "David Wagner"
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 16:48:09 -0500
> 1. I was getting set up to install TeXShop - right after I had upgraded =
to
> OSX.1. However, now I can no longer telnet into my Mac from a remote
> machine -- I keep getting a "connection refused" message. I have =
verified,
> of course, that I have the correct privileges set up to allow remote =
login.
You should not use telnet because it sends the user name and password in =
the
clear--someone with a network sniffer could pick these up and get access =
to
any machine on which this user name and password are valid.
Use ssh instead. Also learn to use scp instead of ftp.
David wagner
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OffTopic - Telnet / remote login in X.1
From: "Hemant Bhargava"
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:02:19 -0400
got it - thanks! Actually I wanted to use ssh with pre-X.1 and it didn't
support it, forcing me to use telnet. so my first instinct with X.1 was
also to try telnet.
scp - that's something I need to learn about.
- Hemant
--On Thursday, October 4, 2001 16:48 -0500 David Wagner
wrote:
>> 1. I was getting set up to install TeXShop - right after I had upgraded
>> to OSX.1. However, now I can no longer telnet into my Mac from a remote
>> machine -- I keep getting a "connection refused" message. I have
>> verified, of course, that I have the correct privileges set up to allow
>> remote login.
>
> You should not use telnet because it sends the user name and password in
> the clear--someone with a network sniffer could pick these up and get
> access to any machine on which this user name and password are valid.
>
> Use ssh instead. Also learn to use scp instead of ftp.
>
> David wagner
>
>
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