[SLL] telnet localhost

[Jules Agee]

Chuck Wolber wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
>> Some telnet servers (and clients) have support for Kerberos logins or 
>> S/Key (one-time passwords) validation. Some have SSL builtin too. I 
>> don't use that though.
> 
> Yeah, I looked into those just before I started using SSH. Seemed weird to 
> me to go to all of that trouble to secure a protocol like telnet. It's 
> time to let telnet (and FTP) die a quiet death off on an ice flow 
> somewhere.

Telnet can be pretty useful when diagnosing problems with your MTA or
IMAP server... but in general I agree with you.

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Jules Agee
System Administrator
Pacific Coast Feather Co.
julesa at pcf.com      x284