Hi, With RH7.0, OpenSSH is installed and listens to the network on a full, default install. Since sshd and telnetd are doing very similar things, maybe telnetd should not be listening to the network on a full, default install (because telnetd is the unencrypted less secure service). One root process listening on the network is better than two.... This might be a useful thing to do in the RH7.1 timeframe or so. Cheers Chris
Oh - same goes for "rshd", "rlogind" of course. The more listening ports we can kill (or de-priv) in the default install, the better... Also, the more we encourage ssh usage over unencrypted protocols, the better...
I happily notice that RH7.1 beta1 does not have any of telnet, rsh, rlogin listening. It just has SSH, a worthy replacement :) Is this intentional and going to remain for RH7.1 final? If so, we can close this bug as fixed.
Yup, it's intentional.