Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor This is highly subjective, of course, so apologies in advance.
The section on Remote logins begins with a discussion of Telnet and a sidebar about the r-commands; in addition, the telnet section seems to imply that telnet-ssl might be a workable option for remote shell. IMHO it might serve the reader better to focus solely on SSH here, and leave only the briefest mention of deprecated protocols to a sidebar or footnote. It's been a long time since any major distro that I know of has shipped with telnetd installed, and anyone who even knows about rsh/rcp should know better by now than to want to use them. (Case in point: I started using Linux back in 2003, and even back then these protocols were deprecated). As for telnet-ssl; if there's a business case that would make this even an option to consider over SSH, I would think it'd be the extreme exception. IMHO, it's probably best not to mention it. Obviously, it's good advice, but it's hopefully unnecessary at this point (or at least requires less emphatic placement). -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
