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1 CraigBox 1 Telnet is a protocol for remotely connecting to a machine and getting a console (a CommandLine) on that machine, as if you were local.
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3 It was invented for ArpaNet and used extensively on the InterNet.
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2 AristotlePagaltzis 5 It runs on [TCP] [Port] 23.
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7 See telnet(1) for information on the telnet client in Linux.
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9 Telnet is totally insecure. (all plain text; no encryption.) While there exists a Telnet over [SSL], it has been replaced almost entirely by [SSH].
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2 AristotlePagaltzis 12 Part of CategoryNetworking and CategoryProtocols