Telnetd broken

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 10:15:41 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Karel Volný <kvolny at redhat.com> wrote:
> Dne St 30. ledna 2013 10:03:57, drago01 napsal(a):
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
>>
>> <caf at omen.com> wrote:
>> > The telnet service in Fedora 18 and Rawhide is broken.
>>
>> > Here is output from telnet(1) on f18 calling a machine running Rawhide:
>> Do yourself a favor and use ssh instead.
>
> do us a favor and refrain from such comments next time :-)
>
> we (RHEL QA) also have an use case for telnet, despite the fact that for day
> to day work everyone uses ssh (with keys) since the year dot

Using telnet over the internet is just not a good idea. PERIOD.

Yes there are usecases for telnet, the OP one isn't.


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