telnet with ssl

[MartinCz]

Hi.

I need to telnet to a server which requires ssl connection to be established.

I have Mandrake 10.1 and am not sure what do I have to do. open-ssl is installed but I dont know if the telnet i am using can use it.

By google i found some telnet-ssl which is unfortunatelly for debian.

Please, how can I get around this?

Thank you.

[ph34r]

SSL or ssh?

ssh is like telnet (but better) and encrypted

[jrbush82]

most likely the server is running sshd.. try an ssh client

[MartinCz]

It is accesible by telnet with ssl support (not ssh).

[ph34r]

You could dl the debian package and convert it to rpm via alien... or check freshrpms.net and see if there is a rpm available for your version of mandrake.

Also, check the help output and man page for your installed telnet package to see if you can use ssl with a commandline option/argument.

[azambuja]

When I read the first post I figured it wouldn't be 2 secs before someone said ssh... then I read the second post :D

Anyway... I didn't know it either, but I googled and apparently only debian has a ssl version of telnet (or other distros hide it really well)

So might wanna try getting the src from debian and compiling it yourself
http://archive.progeny.com/debian/pool/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/netkit-telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1.orig.tar.gz
Or get a deb package and use the alien (no joke) program.
http://archive.progeny.com/debian/pool/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_i386.deb

Good luck

[MartinCz]

Thank you. I'll try and let you know my results.