On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 05:16:26PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Package: busybox > Version: 1.27.2-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainers, > > Please consider enabling telnetd in the busybox package. A tiny and > trivial patch to set the config is attached inline. A rebuild with that > change seems to work fine. > > 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. > > Having telnetd available without having to rebuild busybox would be > extremely handy when using Debian (or derivatives) in small boxes (eg: > arm64) inside a telecommunication provider's network.
Anything that makes it more work for you and hence gives more incentive for you to get the clueless people that want to keep using telnet to change is a good thing. Allowing telnet access ought to be made as difficult as possible. People have been saying to not use telnet for about 20 years now. They better have learned by now. -- Len Sorensen
