Re: deleting telnet/telnetd

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Dec 19, 11:48pm, David Holland wrote:
} On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:06:58PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
}  > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:03:19PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
}  > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:58:14PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
}  > >  > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:03:27PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
}  > >  > > [...]
}  > >  > > The hope, I think, was that the conclusion would be that we don't
}  > >  > > really need one.
}  > >  > 
}  > >  > We really need one, and the one we have does the job. I really don't see
}  > >  > why we shoud rewrite something that works.
}  > > 
}  > > Have you looked at the code?
}  > 
}  > no but I do use it quite often.
} 
} If you value your sanity, don't. But, also, you might want to rethink

     I could say the same thing about OpenSSH, something that is
supposed to use modern coding standards to be secure.  At one time,
I maintained SunOS 4.x systems past their "best before" dates.  I
ran OpenSSH on them.  Every other release, they broke the portability
layer.  Looking at that code seriously hurt my head.  My point is
that there is a lot of code out there that can hurt your sanity,
and some of it isn't all that old.

} how much you trust it.

     If there was a suitable replacement for OpenSSH, I would jump
on it in an instance.

}-- End of excerpt from David Holland