Setup Telnet / SSH On FreeBSD / Linux?

[Superwormy]

Can anyone eithre tell me how, or direct me to a good tutorial explaining how to setup Telnet OR SSH on FreeBSD or Redhat?

 

[mjquilly]

me no speaka da BSD (yet), but if you're doing a new install of RedHat (it sounds like you are), you can set it up at install time. Use SSH.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

telnet should be as simple as enabling it in inetd (or xinetd :disgust: ) - ssh requires pretty much zero setup, of course you can do alot of things to heighten security if you choose, but the defaults should be fine.

if you're using it for login/maintenance purposes, definitely go with ssh. in freebsd it should be as simple as a rc.conf edit (see /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the line to put in your rc.conf) - in redhat, i'm not so sure.

 

[n0cmonkey]

FreeBSD: there are 2 versions, one can be installed during the install and the other is part of ports. This is all from brief memory though, so I could be wrong. There may also be an ssh.com version for FreeBSD, but why bother?

Linux: RedHat has an older version with patches backported. The source is also available with instructions for installing. Debian probably has a package for it.

 

[mikepeck]

For freebsd , you need to install the openbsd port.

Here is the best instructions

I found it from a search at google

 

[Poontos]

Originally posted by: Superwormy
Can anyone eithre tell me how, or direct me to a good tutorial explaining how to setup Telnet OR SSH on FreeBSD or Redhat?

SSH is part of the base system on FreeBSD. So no need to install it. Just type in ssh -l yourusername host.ip.address.

 

[ahabeger]

RedHat and Debian have SSH installed and running by default on any installation, I'd guess that Gentoo might be one of the few that doesn't have SSH installed by default. Any time i've installed SSH from a package it started up and configured the daemon for me, really not that much to do.