Although I just use telnet for basic Web server troubleshooting, telnet ends up being my preferred tool for e-mail troubleshooting, mostly because it's so simple to send a complete e-mail with only a ...

Not sure what I'm even trying to ask here, but I have to telnet into a remote server from my home Linux box and I'm having some trouble with some basic stuff. For one thing, I can't use vi. Not ...

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:21:33PM -0700, Martin Siegert wrote: > Topic > ===== > remote root exploit in in.telnetd RedHat and Caldera have issued new telnet packages that fix the remote root exploit.

Telnet is a protocol: a set of rules and procedures defined to standardize Telnet communication. For this reason, Telnet tool has been implemented across numerous platforms based on the specifications ...

Thus if you cannot switch off telnet and wait until a new telnet package is released for your distribution, you could patch the telnetd source code using the appended patch and recompile telnetd.