On Monday 07 November 2005 20:47, Ioan Nemes wrote: > It in not the question of sshd works or, not! In large environments, > where you have a large number of legacy hardware (like Apollo 700, > HP 3000, HP 7000, Solaris 2.5.1 etc., etc.), and the purpose of a UNIX > box is other than to run a firewall, a webserver, mail-server, or > MySQL, > plus you have thousand + users, and clients (internal/external on > different > client platforms), yes it is bad not have telnetd running. Matthew is > quite > right, telnet is live and will be for very long time. It was a bad > choice > to be removed from the source tree. You reduce your options. > > Above, I am not arguing pro/contra telnetd, or sshd! > > Ioan [snip]
If you *really* need telnetd, you could always go to the attic and pull it out. Or get it from your 3.7 CD and figure out how to build it. I fail to see why you need it, however. You can still telnet from OpenBSD to your legacy systems, so that isn't dead. What *is* dead is the idea of encouraging client systems to telnet to a modern host. I applaud this, as I did when rlogind went away. Telnet needs to die. If no one will take the stance of geting rid of it, how will it ever end? --STeve Andre'
