Re: [FW1] SSH

[Paul D. Robertson <proberts@clark.net>]

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Philipp Schott wrote:

> > > When a firewall rule allows SSH coming into internal network, does it mean
> > > that it allows users to use telnet, rlogin, ftp, etc. services?
> > >
> 
> it allows the users to use the 'functionality' of telnet, rlogin etc but not
> the services themselves. sshd takes care of this not telnetd etc.

It's worth noting that ssh is designed well for tunneling other 
applications over it.  For instance, I know people who tunnel X-windows 
over SSH.  Setting up port forwarding isn't that difficult to do with SSH.

Paul
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