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Authentication method for telnet
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| ronaldd 2001-03-21, 6:32 pm |
| I have a question about an exam question that I took on a practice test:
What authentication method is employed by telnet when the user is attempting to logon to a remote host?
The answer they showed was ..
rhosts
I thought it was simply username and password since this is transmitted clear text. Anyone know the correct answer?
Thanks,
Ron | |
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| Bumping this up cos I would luv to know the answer too. | |
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| I am also confused by this answer - as far as I am aware .rhosts authentication is used by rcp, rlogin and rsh, but not by telnet.
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Originally posted by ronaldd
I have a question about an exam question that I took on a practice test:
What authentication method is employed by telnet when the user is attempting to logon to a remote host?
The answer they showed was ..
rhosts
I thought it was simply username and password since this is transmitted clear text. Anyone know the correct answer?
Thanks,
Ron
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| I spent some time on this one while I was studying. The answer is U/N and P/W. As I understand it, the .rhosts is a file that gives a listing of remote users that can access a host. It's been two months since I took the test so I don't remember the exact explanation though. It looks like Bag has the right idea though. | |
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| Same here, I thought it was just username and password. | |
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| It seems to me that it is Username/Password too. I went to whatis.com to see what they were saying about telnet and here is a partial part of it..
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A Telnet command request looks like this (the computer name is made-up):
telnet the.libraryat.harvard.edu
The result of this request would be an invitation to log on with a userid and a prompt for a password. If accepted, you would be logged on like any user who used this computer every day.
For the full text, here is the URL.http://whatis.techtarget.com/WhatIs...,213116,00.html
Just my 2 cents,
behave |
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