[Asterisk-Users] telnet and Root

[Steve Szmidt]

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On Friday 20 August 2004 12:22 pm, Chris Shaw wrote:
> LOL it was so long ago, I didn't think about that reason... :)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walt Reed" <asterisk at linuxguy.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] telnet and Root
>
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 08:40:43AM -0700, Chris Shaw said:
> > > >...Today there's no valid reason to use telnet over ssh.
> > >
> > > Was there ever a valid reason? Maybe export restrictions on crypto?
> > > I've never EVER used telnet or rlogin, SSH is so much nicer anyway...
> >
> > Yeah. Some of us were around before ssh existed. :-)

Plus it's still a good tool for talking to various services like a mailserver 
to debug connections. (You can specify the port to connect to.)
- -- 
Steve

"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
                                Benjamin Franklin

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