[ILUG] Question about ssh

[Timothy Murphy]

On Fri 03 Aug 2007, Paul Barry wrote:

> I bring putty on my usb-stick and have an ssh applet on my own https
> server. 

This is probably a very ignorant question,
but why not just open an ssh port on the server,
and use putty on the remote machine?
Is this unsafe?



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