Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

[Marc Balmer <mhbalmer%gmail.com@localhost>]

> Am 15.12.2018 um 22:38 schrieb Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>:
> 
>> Den 2018-12-15 kl. 22:11, skrev Marc Balmer:
>> Whatever.
>> 
>> Please keep telnet and telnetd in base.  They have their valid use cases.
>> 
> Yes please.  I have used both kerberized telnet and plain telnet last 12 months frequently.

I often use telnet over VPN (ipsec) connections.  Using it prevents double encryption that I would encur if using ssh.

Telnet + ipsec is a secure thing.

> I don't think it's up to us try to tell people that "this SW may be insecure and we don't trust you of not knowing that, so we'll remove it instead".

To me it looks like one or two people don‘t like telnet and have become very vocal and loud about removing it and did not invest a lot of thought in to the cause.   Yes, I call them dummies....

> 
> I'm pretty sure that all users of telnet know what the implications are.   If they don't then it doesn't matter whether it is in base or not.
> 
> -- Ragge