On 07/04/2018 13:47, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Dear Maintainers, > > Any chance this patch could be looked at? > It would really help those of us in the networking world using Debian, > and would make no difference for anybody else as there's no > service/init script to start the daemon automatically. Hi Luca, It would be remiss of us to deliberately introduce support for a network protocol that has no realistic prospect of secure operation. We will not enable telnetd in any of the flavours of busybox that we currently package. I would encourage you to build your own busybox packages if you need this functionality, or to simply install one of the multiple available standalone telnetd packages available in Debian. That being said, a new flavour of busybox is under consideration that enables all possible feature flags (within reason). Given the goal of such a package, it would be entirely possible for telnetd to be included in it. There is no timeline for the introduction of such a package and every chance it might not happen, though. Best regards, Chris -- Chris Boot bootc@debian.org
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