On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 20:05 +0000, Mick wrote:
> On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > You cannot use an ssh client in this manner.
> >
> > If you want a telnet client, emerge either netkit-telnetd or telnet-bsd.
> 
> Thanks for all the replies.  I had not emerged telnet so far because
> of potential security reasons.  Is netcat better in that respect?

What makes you think that's it's better than telnet? esp when you see
this during it's emerge

[ebuild   R   ] net-analyzer/netcat-110-r8  USE="crypt
-GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE -ipv6 -static" 0 kB 

ps : Didn't follow the thread, so don't know what you want to achieve/do

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> Regards,
> Mick
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