[Asterisk-Users] telnet and Root

[Steve Szmidt]

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On Friday 20 August 2004 01:14 pm, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 11:59, Steve Szmidt wrote:
> > > ----- 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.)
>
> Outside of SMTP and www, what are you doing with a open port to use
> telnet with? Pop3 is BAD, IMAP is BAD. You should be using the encrypted
> versions of all of these. Anything you can't secure directly should be
> tunneled via port forwarding with a ssh command.

Not everyone is doing this across the Internet. : )

Not that I use very frequently these days either. But it has come handy a 
couple of times this century where I lacked any other tool to easily verify 
connectivity.

You cannot use ssh to check responses on most ports. But otherwise I agree 
with you. Unfortunately, as we all know, it's not a perfect world where we 
can always have our way. (If so MS, f.ex., would have been a good team 
player, and no hacker would break the law. Spammers, ... : )


- -- 
Steve

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

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