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Telnet Service Turn-Off

The telnet service on falcon has been disabled as of July 1, 2003. The telnet service is inherently insecure because it is not encrypted. As of July 1, 2003, shell access to falcon will be available only through an SSH ("secure shell") client. All regular falcon users already use SSH clients, so there should be little disruption except for those infrequent users unfamiliar with SSH.

Available SSH clients

Windows

Novell/NetWare users can use SecureCRT, found in the JMU Apps folder, or anyone can download PuTTY by clicking here.

MacOS

OS X includes the command-line OpenSSH, available from a Terminal window with the ssh command (see the unix-style documentation at ssh(1) for usage instructions). Users with MacOS versions prior to OS X can acquire NiftyTelnet+SSH by clicking here.

Linux/Other Unix Systems

Recent distributions of Linux and many other unix systems come with OpenSSH installed. See ssh(1) in the documentation for usage instructions.