Re: Dropping telnetd and rsh* for security reasons?
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:15:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > telnet is useful because it's on all Windows machines stretching back
> > probably to Win3.1. In other words, it's the lowest common denominator.
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> But windows doesn't come with a (working) telnet client...
It works well enough for my purposes. My assistants use Windows 95, 98, NT
3.51, NT 4, 2000, and XP, and they all work the same way:
Start -> Run -> telnet <hostname> -> OK
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