On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 01:50:52PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 05:16:26PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > Please consider enabling telnetd in the busybox package. > > > > As much as I wish it wasn't the case, telnet is still widely used, > > especially in the ISP/telco world. Telcos networking engineers expect > > to be able to telnet into boxes in their network even today. > > As much as I don't mind doing weird things in support of weird use > cases, in this particular case I think that would be sending out the > wrong message. We shouldn't do that, IMO, but rather encourage people to > switch to SSH instead of telnet.
Busybox upstream does that in https://busybox.net/tinyutils.html Which has a pointer to http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/ > It might make sense to add some documentation that explains why telnet > isn't supported, however. Text from the homepage of dropbear Dropbear SSH Dropbear is a relatively small SSH server and client. It runs on a variety of POSIX-based platforms. Dropbear is open source software, distributed under a MIT-style license. Dropbear is particularly useful for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix) systems, such as wireless routers. That in other words: There is an alternative for telnetd There is NO need to keep sending clear text passwords ... Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven