> > But what I originally stated still holds. Perhaps you don't have > > plain-text ftp and telnet, but you have the ssh equivalents, > > There is no ssh equivalent to telnet (the command). It sounds to me as > though you are thinking of telnet, the command, as nothing but an > interface to telnet, the remote login protocol. That is far from its > only use; indeed, these days, that isn't much of a use at all. I can't > recall the last time I saw a machine running a telnet daemon even on an > isolated intranet.
Actually, most of my systems on *this* isolated intranet run a telnetd. It's inward facing, of course, but there's no reason for encryption on this network when I'm the sole user. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver. --------------------------------
