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Re: Dropping telnetd and rsh* for security reasons?



On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:15:39AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:

> How does one request a package be removed?  Seems like now is a very
> good time to drop telnetd from the distro altogether as a security
> hazard, along with rsh...

It's useful in debugging sometimes, e.g. "telnet nameofhost 25" to test
whether the SMTP server is responding correctly.
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Carl Fink		carlf@dm.net
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