Re: telnet and harden-clients

2012-10-03 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Try:

# aptitude why-not telnet

On 09/29/2012 06:46 PM, lina wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I have the harden-clients installed.
 
 when I tried to install the telnet,
 
 it showed me conflict.
 
 # aptitude why telnet
 Unable to find a reason to install telnet.
 
 I am just curious how telnet work. Is it not so secure to have it? or
 what make it conflict with that package.
 
 Thanks for your time,
 
 Best regards,
 
 


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telnet and harden-clients

2012-09-29 Thread lina
Hi,

I have the harden-clients installed.

when I tried to install the telnet,

it showed me conflict.

# aptitude why telnet
Unable to find a reason to install telnet.

I am just curious how telnet work. Is it not so secure to have it? or
what make it conflict with that package.

Thanks for your time,

Best regards,


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Re: telnet and harden-clients

2012-09-29 Thread Yoann CONGAL
I think that is because everything in telnet is sent in plaintext...
password included. It is also vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet#Security

2012/9/29 lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com:
 Hi,

 I have the harden-clients installed.

 when I tried to install the telnet,

 it showed me conflict.

 # aptitude why telnet
 Unable to find a reason to install telnet.

 I am just curious how telnet work. Is it not so secure to have it? or
 what make it conflict with that package.

 Thanks for your time,

 Best regards,


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