On Tue, 2017-11-14 at 14:30 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:59:41PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > you are aware that this would only cause (these) people to switch > > away > > from Debian, but not from telnet? > > I honestly believe they just haven't tried. As long as you indulge > them, > they will keep training new people with bad habits. It won't go away > until you make it go away. Sometimes you really do have to tell > people no. Sorry, but that's just not the case. Honestly, I tried, may others have too, it's just not going to happen - either Debian provides it, or they'll go somewhere else (or ask for the services to be based on a different distro and so on). > > also, I miss your removal requests for the telnetd and ftpd and > > (countless) other packages. > > > > to the original poster: what's wrong with installing telnetd? its > > only > > 103kb in size... Well for small systems for starters - most tools provided by busybox are "just a few kb in size", but we still use it. More importantly in my case, busybox telnetd is really standalone and can do inetd work by itself, which is not the case for the standard telnetd. So it's not just a matter of footprint, but lack of feature too. > Well at least in a separate package you don't accidentally get it > just > by installing busybox. Even if you install it, it won't do anything unless you enable it via an init script or by starting it manually. So there's no chance of using it by mistake. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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