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Re: Terminals in X Window System.

From William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups comp.security.misc
Subject Re: Terminals in X Window System.
Date 2025-03-19 15:52 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2025-03-13, Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
> On 13.03.2025 08:28 Uhr peter@easthope.ca wrote:
>
>> 
>> Correction: I should have asked, is "telnet localhost" less secure 
>> than "xterm"?
>
> Completely different stuff. xterm just opens a terminal emulator on
> your system. telnet connects to a telnet server, usually a remote
> system.

And connects with everything sent in the clear. Use ssh instead.

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Terminals in X Window System. peter@easthope.ca - 2025-03-12 06:41 -0700
  Re: Terminals in X Window System. Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-03-12 17:08 +0100
    Re: Terminals in X Window System. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-12 19:31 +0000
    Re: Terminals in X Window System. peter@easthope.ca - 2025-03-13 08:28 -0700
      Re: Terminals in X Window System. Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-03-13 20:10 +0100
        Re: Terminals in X Window System. Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2025-03-13 21:38 -0500
        Re (2): Terminals in X Window System. peter@easthope.ca - 2025-03-14 13:09 -0700
          Re: Re (2): Terminals in X Window System. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-14 21:04 +0000
            Re (3): Terminals in X Window System. peter@easthope.ca - 2025-03-16 08:21 -0700
              Re: Re (3): Terminals in X Window System. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-16 16:13 +0000
        Re: Terminals in X Window System. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2025-03-19 15:52 +0000
      Re: Terminals in X Window System. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-13 21:11 +0000
        Re: Terminals in X Window System. peter@easthope.ca - 2025-03-23 11:23 -0700
          Re: Terminals in X Window System. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-23 19:34 +0000
            Re (2): Terminals in X Window System. peter@easthope.ca - 2025-03-23 22:02 -0700
          Re: Terminals in X Window System. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2025-03-26 06:02 +0000

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