[TriLUG] a simple question

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Wed Jun 4 19:33:32 EDT 2003


Telnet works great for those HP JetDirect cheese boxes...especially when
your web browser doesn't do Java.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hedemark [mailto:chrish at trilug.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 7:16 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] a simple question
> 
> telnet:
> This is one of those things where grizzled old sysadmins 
> usually say if 
> you have to ask, then you probably don't understand the security 
> implications and shouldn't be told.  Telnet is evil.  99.999% 
> of people 
> don't really have a viable excuse to enable it.  sshd is probably 
> already there, and should be used instead.
> 



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