> 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!
What you are really telling us is that you are working in an Australian city's government running insecure protocols on your local network. That is your choice. But we won't help you build broken networks.
