telnet: I'm used to it, and it works. I use nc when I need it, but otherwise, what does it matter? (Assuming you actually have both to choose from.)
- Leon, Crazy Old Sysadmin On May 7, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Simon Lyall <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2013, Derek Balling wrote: >> On May 7, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Tracy Reed <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The fact that telnet is insecure in some (now rare) use cases (any time you >>> enter a password) >>> is just one more reason to let it go. >> >> If I type my password in an NC connection is it somehow magically protected? >> >> For its most common daily use-case today ("get me to a specific port on the >> other host") telnet is no more or less secure than nc is. > > The general Linux/Unix environment does evolve over time and commands get > replaced or become completely obsolete[1]. Netcat is over 17 years old[2] and > has been in Debian since 1998[3] so you can hardly say it is brand new. > > Sure our fingers get used to typing "top" or "telnet" or "egrep" but learning > a new command every year or two would hopefully come within the area of "try > not to be that crazy old Sysadmin looking after the obsolete system who will > get laid off when it is finally replaced because he doesn't know anything > newer than Solaris 7"[4] > > [1] http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix2.1/unixnut/appb_01.htm > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat > [3] > http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/n/netcat/netcat_1.10-38_changelog > [4] We all know one. > > -- > Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.simonlyall.com/ > "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
