On Friday, 03/21/2003 at 10:33 EST, David Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:03, John Summerfield wrote: > > If it has any redeeming features, I've long forgotten them. > > Well, Windows only comes with a telnet client (though not a very good > one). This pretty much obligates you to install e.g. putty on Windows > machines in order to communicate with sshd. So ubiquity is probably > telnet's outstanding "redeeming feature". > > Also, I guess some governments still don't like encryption, and the last > I knew packet radio didn't allow it.
Now that telnet client vendors are providing SSL support for telnet, I'm not sure what the objection is any more. Yes, ssh provides more function and is perceived as more secure, but that doesn't make secure telnet a bad thing. (To be sure, no, I'm not thrilled with unsecured telnet, ubiquitous though it may be.) Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
