On 10 Jan 24  19:55:00, Shurato said the following to Jas Hud:

S> I don't, I want to for my users who are paranoid and want to use ssh instead
S> of telnet.  Everything I do is for users I don't have, not me.  I'd just lik
S> to be able to do this from windows and get rid of my linux vm.

In 25 years of offering telnet access I've never had one that ever wanted SSH.

I really don't understand the fascination of any Sysop that wants to offer
that. All of the convoluted Rube Goldberg in-betweenisms needed for a type
of user that simply does not exist. Note that I said user... because what I do
understand is the topic began on Fsx which itself is a Net almost entirely
comprised of insufferable Linux Sysops. Not users... Sysops.

When the idea was challenged on the merit the rebuttal was tech. Because
Linux. Because we can, we must... offering something really only understood by
another insufferable Linux Sysop. These are people who I guarantee they have
never ran a board before, never had thousands of users or multiline systems
in the 90's. But they're here now, they're Linux, and they know it all.

No user calling a board prefers or even tries connecting via SSH. Only the
insufferable Linux Sysop prefers this. And no, they are not paranoid users.
Far from it... That "user" has a level of expectation and mannerism an average
caller does not have.

I wouldn't want such a user on my board anyway as right off the bat he feels 
a sense of techno-entitlement. Not ever realising that I could be watching at
the console. So much for the "security" for mister-paranoid who probably would
call once and vanish anyway. Who wants that?

Nick

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