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Telnet

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I'm looking for a Telnet client for Windows. Anyone have a recommendation?
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Post by sweatje »

First is don't telnet, use SSH. Second is my favorite Windows SSH client Putty can do telnet too.
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Post by hawleyjr »

Very nice, thanks for the input. Second person to suggest PuTTY to me...
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Post by Deemo »

yeah you definetely do not want to use telnet. SSH is a much better choice. And Putty is definetely the choice for SSH/Telnet client
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Post by Ambush Commander »

Personally, I think the interface of PuTTY is clunky (which you wouldn't think is possible, since it's all command line... just the login screen), but that's just me. I use PuTTY too.

Most of the time, you won't need command line, unless you need to extract tar balls or run the PEAR installer I guess...
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Post by Roja »

Telnet is bad because it passes your authentication in cleartext, along with all your commands. So anyone sniffing the network can see your password, username, and what you are doing on the box. Bad stuff.

I also use Putty, although I have in the past used SecureCRT. SecureCRT is *very* polished, fairly bug-free, and easy to use, but its also expensive and proprietary. I suggest trying Putty first, and if it doesn't meet your needs, then consider SecureCRT.

And to the contrary of Ambush Commander, I use commandline all day, every day. Thats how I code. :)
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Putty has always done the job brilliantly for me. Like has been said... use SSH, not telnet. If you do want to use telnet than putty can handle that for you.

Telnet is not encrypted in any way so is immensley insecure.... I don't even have it installed. SSH does use ecryption on the other hand and can also use signed keys for login rather than sending passwords ;)
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Post by timvw »

I've been using ssh.com client for a long time (had a university license) and now i usually use putty (i've forgotten already why exactly).

I don't like to type passwords all the time, so i use public/private keys. But, if you use tortoise cvs over ssl you always have to type your passphrase you want to install pagent (also at the putty site).
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