IMHO On the assumption you very rarely telnet to the filer anyhow and that you have an allowed hosts lists set up, also on the assumption its perhaps one hop from your admin hosts to your filer and that you are using switches that are nice and secure I'd say the risk of a password being picked up was almost non existent.
I looked at secureadmin but havent actually used it, i think we pay enough already for the license cost without buying extra plugins that ought to be incldued foc! :)
Steve
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Villa, Tony wrote:
I had a question for this group. My company just started to install Filers on our network and I was wandering if there are any products that you use to connect to the Filer to replace the standard telnet command. I know Network Appliance sells SecureAdmin but I was wandering if there are any others out there.
Our security group is concerned about using telnet since any passwords that is send is send in clear text.
Any suggestions are welcome also if SecureAdmin is being used any input on it would be appreciated.
Tony Villa Sr. Network Specialist ISTS/ITUSS/DC System Server Support Pacific Gas and Electric Company 925-779-7771 AEV1@PGE.COM