Bug#881626: busybox: enable telnetd
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 05:16:26PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Package: busybox
> Version: 1.27.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Dear Maintainers,
>
> Please consider enabling telnetd in the busybox package. A tiny and
> trivial patch to set the config is attached inline. A rebuild with that
> change seems to work fine.
>
> As much as I wish it wasn't the case, telnet is still widely used,
> especially in the ISP/telco world. Telcos networking engineers expect
> to be able to telnet into boxes in their network even today.
As much as I don't mind doing weird things in support of weird use
cases, in this particular case I think that would be sending out the
wrong message. We shouldn't do that, IMO, but rather encourage people to
switch to SSH instead of telnet.
It might make sense to add some documentation that explains why telnet
isn't supported, however.
As an aside, can you tell which telco's we are talking about?
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