Dominic Coulombe wrote:
Is there a reason to use SSH without encryption over telnet?
Just wondering.

The primary reason _I_ use ssh is its simplicity compared with using
telnet. Mostly, I use it over trusted (I control it all) or
already-encrypted channels (VPN).

I often use it's X forwarding, I often run commands like this:
ssh coco uptime

and I often use SCP.

ssh replaces telnet and rsh, and (it seems to me) does both jobs better.
In addition to those, I also used to use rexec on OS/2.

telnet doesn't automatically login - I used to run an expect script to
do that.
rsh doesn't authenticat users very well.
Neither does rexec.




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