On Wednesday 08 November 2006 19:53, Dave Jones wrote:
But for Fedora, I can't think of a valid reason why someone
would
want to enable a telnetd given the security concerns of non
encrypted sessions.
Small embedded systems use telnet servers and clients because of the
low overhead. Look at the Dallas Semi-conductor's TINI for an
example. It is quite handy to be able to telnet to a PC hosting
telnetd from one of these devices.
Regards, Mike Klinke