telnetd mystery ....

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:46:58 +0800,
   Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>First....  No need to bring up the ssh v.s. telnet stuff.....
>
>Has anyone configured telnetd for use on F18?  Running 64 bit....but this shouldn't make a difference.  Anyway, I did the normal procedure.....

Most people aren't going to be running telnetd as passwords are transmitted 
in the clear and you need to trust that no one is sniffing passwords. At 
the local endpoint networks this isn't that hard to do.