On 19.07.22 16:05, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 01:49:53AM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
Telnet is old, insecure and should not be used any more. What is the
point of
packaging a Telnet daemon when everyone should be using SSH. Telnet
Client I
can see because a person may need to connect to a router or switch
that is
still using telnet or hasn't had SSH Certificates generated yet.
I personally use telnet to connect to systems whose ssh implementations
are old enough that they are no longer interoperable with current ssh.
Every system will eventually become an old system, and telnet has a much
better record of working over the long term than does ssh. Security
concerns have a place in determining defaults, but not in banning
software that other people find useful in a context that might not
matter to you.
I found the client-side very tolerant of ancient server-side
implementations when the right kinds of switches are passed to it (e.g.
KexAlgorithms and HostKeyAlgorithms). I have yet to be unable to
actually connect to a target - even if it means fiddling increasingly
with flags.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
