Re: Authentication for telnet.
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 09:48:09AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 09:36:51PM -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> > peter@joule:~$ grep telnet /etc/inetd.conf
> > telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -a user
> > # Restart inetd.
Why in the hell is anyone running telnetd in 2019?
What is the PURPOSE of this idiocy? To recreate that 1992 feeling? For
nostalgia?
Is the machine at least network-less? Because introducing a security
hole of this magnitude on an Internetworked machine would be unforgiveable.
> I fail to see how that's "OK".
Ditto!
> > Then the result from telnet to localhost is in this little screenshot.
> > http://easthope.ca/TelnetScreenshot.jpg
>
> Please copy text to the mail next time.
Ditto! Or maybe, because this machine isn't networked, he had to take
a photograph. No doubt using actual film, and then developing it, and
then scanning it in on a flatbed scanner. You know, because he lives
in 1992.
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