14B: Use Remote Access Tools

Question 1

Application protocol supporting secure tunneling and remote terminal emulation and file copy; runs over TCP port 22.

Answer 1

SSH

Question 2

An older remote protocol that does not support encryption and is disabled on most modern systems. However, some older or insecure systems may still have this service enabled (tcp 23)

Answer 2

telnet

Question 3

A Linux command that is similar to Telnet, but if the server has an .rhosts file configured a certain way, you won’t even need to supply credentials.

Answer 3

rsh/rlogin

Question 4

Command-line utility used to read from or write to TCP, UDP, or Unix domain socket network connections.Highly versatile but does not use encryption.

Answer 4

netcat

Question 5

Tool developed for Nmap as an improvement over Netcat, not only retaining most of the functionality, but also adding more, of which an important one is support for SSL.

Answer 5

ncat