Post B2Vi69L3ZGpYvs5XI8 by ptribble@mastodon.illumos.cafe
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(DIR) Post #B2Vi67k9UziTz7oY88 by ptribble@mastodon.illumos.cafe
2026-01-21T11:25:06Z
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10 years or so ago, this happened:Me: I'm going to disable telnet on all the servers and use ssh everywhere.Users: Can't do that, our client software doesn't support it.Me: Oh, what software are you using?Users: Something called putty.Me: ...A quick walk round the office to reset everyone's putty back to defaults and telnet was very quickly disabled.
(DIR) Post #B2Vi69L3ZGpYvs5XI8 by ptribble@mastodon.illumos.cafe
2026-01-21T11:29:31Z
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Actually, my memory of time is a bit off. Make that 20 years or so ago.
(DIR) Post #B2Vi6AVNEOg4Y9vI0m by pitrh@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T11:33:59Z
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@ptribble about 20 years ago sounds reasonable. OpenBSD removed the last traces of telnetd in the base system in 2005: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=111700017509177&w=2, not sure how long other systems kept theirs (but could be years in some cases)
(DIR) Post #B2Vi6BQRoCKbPAcryK by yakumo_izuru@misskey.m544.net
2026-01-21T13:07:19.308Z
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@pitrh@mastodon.social NetBSD still has telnet to date, albeit disabled by default@ptribble@mastodon.illumos.cafe