telnetd mystery ....

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/30/2013 02:56 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
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> > 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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> But that would be the unix server running telnet and not the Linux system as in this case....
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No, you are wrong.   The client side is the Unix box and the server side is the Linux box.  Additionally, the telnet client isn't what you assume it to be.

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