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! Ioan >>> Jason Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/11/2005 11:55:55 am >>> telnetd was completely removed from the source tree around the end of may, soon after 3.7 was released. As far as an alternative, why does sshd not work? There are ssh daemons for almost all other operating systems, unless maybe you're using OpenVMS or Plan9 (although I think there is at least one for those as well, just not OpenSSH). On 11/7/05, Matthew S Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I cannot appear to locate a telnet daemon in 3.8 installs now. It > appears to have silently disappeared between 3.7 and 3.8. > > I see no mention of this in the release notes or after a cursory search > of the mailing lists. It's possible it is mentioned somewhere and I am > missing it. > > I understand the advantages of ssh over telnet, but telnet is still > heavily used in many environments. > > Is it merely hiding somewhere or can someone recommend an alternative > for me? > > Regards, > Matt http://www.netcleanse.com
