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From: David <mailto:bouncingc...@gmail.com>, Sat, 28 Sep 2019 08:15:07 -0700 > > LXTerminal for example, doesn't require authentication. Can telnet > > work similarly? > ... no-one has a clue what the actual question ... When quoting my question you must have read it. > lxterminal runs a GUI application on your host. It > uses libc so that your CPU can communicate directly with > your keyboard and screen in the most efficient way possible > in GUI land. OK, thanks. lxterminal has been in routine use here for more than five years. As we are on the subject: does anyone give a password to begin every lxterminal session? > So telnet ... is a tool for using a *network* protocol to > communicate with a *remote* host. > telnet manpage says > ... communication with another host ... localhost is a special case. "telnet localhost" is legitimate. > So that's not efficient at all. Every keystroke goes via the > network stack, requiring individual client and server > processes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet In practice, it performs fairly well. > So the first puzzle is why you seem to be in some way > comparing two vastly different things, lxterminal and > telnet. Different but both give a "shell session" or "console" or whatever the correct name. > The second puzzle is why you have a legitimate reason > to 'telnet localhost' because none of us can think of > a good reason. OK, another topic to add here. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/A2 It's a wiki. If interested, please work on it. > Is this question about software provided by the Debian > project? Because that is the unspoken assumption here, > and if that is not the case then then our answers might > be completely irrelevant. I might have mentioned that I use some software not in a Debian package but many others do also. Didn't strike me as an essential point. Not even interesting to most readers. "Authentication for telnet" is a fairly specific topic. Oh well. Solved now. Regards, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca
