secure telnet

[Lowell Gilbert]

"fbsd_user" <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com> writes:

> What is SRA? 

Secure RPC Authentication, I think. 
RFC1416, might be compliant with 2941 as well.

> Is the id and password passed as clear text?

No.

> Where is the documentation on SRA?

The RFCs describe the protocol.  I don't see why there would be any
user interface involved, so I don't know what other kind of
documentation would be useful.

> Where is the documentation on using these 
> options to make telnet secure?

I don't think there is any in the FreeBSD system or documentation
tree.  For secure remote login, ssh(1) is superior in every way, even
if you use null encryption on the session.