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Grex > Garage > #23: Telnetd removal from OpenBSD >= 3.8 and grex.
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Telnetd removal from OpenBSD >= 3.8 and grex. Mark Unseen   Dec 19 14:13 UTC 2005
The new version of OpenBSD (version 3.8 and, presumably, future
releases) have removed the telnet daemon from the distribution.
However, a number of grex users use telnet to connect to grex.
I'd like to see more information about how grex is dealing with
this basic OS change.  Now, it's not terribly hard to just copy
the telnet source code from an older version of OpenBSD, but that's
a step that shouldn't be neglected, and yet there's no mention at
all of this change in grexdoc.  So what's up with it?
57 responses total.
nharmon
response 1 of 57: Mark Unseen   Dec 19 15:48 UTC 2005
The first of Grex's "Security Goals" is "Protecting the privacy of
users." Eliminating Telnet access would certainly be a part of this goal.
rcurl
response 2 of 57: Mark Unseen   Dec 19 18:39 UTC 2005
Does eliminated telnet including eliminating similar daemons, like SSH? 
CAEN eliminated telnet some months back, but SSH is the replacement.
nharmon
response 3 of 57: Mark Unseen   Dec 19 19:09 UTC 2005
I don't think eliminating telnet would mean eliminating SSH, since SSH
meets Grex's security goals.
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