telnetd mystery ....

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/29/2013 10:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 22:19:24 +0800,
>   Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for ignoring the very first sentence and reciting the obvious.
>
> Sorry about that. I saw two threads about it and didn't read the second one very carefully.

OK.....

FWIW, there are times where telnet is the only viable option.  We have an internal system running a real old version of Unix used for X.400/X.25 communication for which ssh is not an option. 

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