Telnet

Telnet is an Internet protocol that allows you to connect to another computer.

UBIT does not support Telnet which exposes your password in cleartext so that it can captured and re-used.

We recommend using Secure Shell (SSH) which provides much of the functionality of telnet, with the addition of strong encryption to prevent sensitive data such as passwords from being intercepted

A Windows SSH client, PuTTY, is available to download; Macintosh OSX computers and Unix have an ssh client.