Re: Speaking of secured Telnet

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dawn May wrote:
> This support has been added for both the 5.4 and 6.1 release - see the
> following article for a summary of the support.
>
> http://ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/i_can/2009/11/i-can-secure-my-telnet-remote-terminal-session.html

I thought I'd heard about that at some point. Thanks for demonstrating 
that I'm not completely crazy, at least on this one point. Are you new 
on this list? If so, welcome to the squirrel-cage.

I thought it was a bit more developed, though. Between the "environment 
variable thing" to switch between unsecured and secured, and the fact 
that authentication is mandatory for secured mode, it seems to be a bit 
more trouble than it's worth at this point. On one of our boxes, I can't 
even get into the damn certificate store, because nobody remembers the 
password for it, and on both of our older boxes that have secured 
telnet, the certificates are expired (which doesn't seem to affect 
secured Telnet if you're only using the privacy functionality).

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JHHL