Thanks!

Re: Re: ok one more time
 

Well, yes, of course. That's trivial.

But the question you originally asked was about the relative insecurity of cleartext logins using the three protocols.
Losing your login password is a much greater security loss than losing your email password or an ftp password. (Assuming your password policies are sane and you don't use the same password for all three. If you allow that you're exactly right, and compromising your email password is equivalent to losing your login password.)

Breen

don't mean
 

to be patronizing, I've just seen far too many folks using telnet and getting burned by it, I've just had to explain the security aspects of this way too many times ;-)


you can also do:

telnet <ip>

enter username and password

you can also do

ssh username@<ip>
enter username and password


telnet bad, ssh good