telnet dangers

[NicoleM]

Hi all

Are there any dangers in opening a telnet session to send information to a windows socket?
I mean the data sent is not secret, just a trigger for a windows process. The Unix box wont be able to be exploited in any way?

Thanks

 

[jad]

nope, shouldn't be possible, even if the socket at the windows side is bad it shouldn't be able to send anything back to your box to cause harm.

 

[jamisar]

install and use 'ssh'

 

[jad]

only if you mean to actually use ssh though, if you're telnetting to a non ssh/telnet port (i.e. smtp port, or instrument control port or equivalent) then you don't want ssh.