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From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Message-ID: <6013@marble.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 91 04:32:16 GMT
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resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:

>This is false. The telpass program provided with NCSA Telnet gives you
>a password file to do exactly this.

You also need to add several lines to the config.tel program
to insure this to work;

ftp=no
passfile="ftppass"	

The keyword "ftppass" indicates that name of the file that you 
created with telpass.  It is located in the system folder.  To
locate it somewhere else, you need to give the entire path to 
the telpass file in the passfile line.

If you set ftp=no, then you will need to turn on ftp explicitly
when you start up.  This is safer, i.e. you mac is not open 
to invasion when you startup TelNet for a simple login session.
When you need to turn on ftp, turn it on and then off again
after the file transfer.  
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