please deactivate services by default!

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Sep 25 23:14:38 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:48:12PM -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> telnet needs to go. I haven't installed the daemon for ages, and for some
> time before had it disabled. The client comes handy to check out text-based
> protocols, though. But perhaps netcat is a replacement here...

There are still a lot of appliances and other junk that only speak telnet
including some of the crappier home internet DSL boxes. Fortunately
telnet is tiny





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