Usage of a telnet client instead of ssh or rsh

Jamie Lokier jamie at shareable.org
Mon May 15 09:58:14 GMT 2006


Mike Daws wrote:
> > ssh isn't always an option.  E.g. to reach HP's testdrive machines,
> > telnet is the only available option.
> > 
> > I've done rsync over telnet, in binary mode and with the terminal set
> > to raw, using Perl and the Perl Net::Telnet module, and it mostly
> > worked but there were sometimes errors.
> 
> netcat ( nc(1) ) should bypass the telnet protocol issues.

No.  One way or another, you have to go through the telnet daemon on
the target machine.  There are no other ways in (FTP doesn't count),
and outgoing connections from the target machine are blocked.

-- Jamie


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