On 01/30/2013 02:56 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
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> FWIW, there are times where telnet is the only viable option. We have an internal
system running a real old version of Unix used for X.400/X.25 communication for which ssh
is not an option.
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But that would be the unix server running telnet and not the Linux system as in this
case....
No, you are wrong. The client side is the Unix box and the server side is the Linux box.
Additionally, the telnet client isn't what you assume it to be.
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