Re: Telnet - can't telnet in as root

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:44:21 +0000 (UTC)

On 2004-07-07, Mike Andrews <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
> Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@start.no> wrote:
>> Mike Andrews wrote:
[there be telnet]
>> > Nice in theory, but not always workable in the real world.

Besides that, telnet is one of those Useful Tools that one may need
now and then. Especially since it's (very nearly) Always There and
netcat or socket(1) aren't, necessairily. Not that I'd be actually
using it for anything.

[snip: scary little horror stories]
> It's an old, old IBM firewall-on-AIX thingy, with a really grody
> (to call it crufty would be to compliment it) GUI and an almost-as-bad
> CLI.

Nice way to say ``Run away, run awaaaaaay''.

[snip]
> Nobody Would Punch Holes Through The Firewall. That ukase is being
> honored to the extent that not only can folks not get in from outside,
> but also folks can't get out from inside.

I'd be tempted to pull the plug for security reasons. And, were I
manager, cost centre effectiveness[2]. And as Career Advancing Move[tm].
Then again, I don't work there, so I wouldn't know.

[snip]
> Division Manager had Given Instructions, and that was that. I'm going
> to try sweet reason, now that I'm an elder statesman and Grand Old Man
> of Systems Programming. If that doesn't work, I'll take my shoe off
> and bang it on the table.

I'd almost ask for pix[2] of that. :-)

[2] yes, abuse of language. it sounds kinda suitable. sosume. 

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