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Re: unencrypted network sessions
From: Alex Campoe <campoe () USF EDU>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:42:27 -0500
Hi Kevin We have approximately 70,000 accounts on our server. We succesfully removed telnet/ftp access last December by replacing it with ssh and scp. We faced the same opposition at first. From the start we were willing to discuss reasonable issues, but "this is what I am used to do" and the other excuses you listed were not an option. At the end, my only concern was the numerous web editors out there that do not offer scp uploads. After all was said and done, complaints turned out to be minimum. Alex Kevin Shalla wrote:
I've been trying to stamp out telnet and ftp access to all our servers (by forcing ssh and sftp), and have been meeting with resistance. The reasons given include "other schools allow telnet", "we're a teaching and research university, and that will limit learning", and "we have people in China and India, and Korea who need access, and they don't have ssh or sftp". Do other schools allow telnet and ftp, and if not, how did you convince the naysayers that it is a good idea to switch to ssh / sftp? Kevin Shalla Manager, Student Information Systems Illinois Institute of Technology <mailto:Kevin.Shalla () iit edu> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/.
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