svn commit: r279603 - in head: bin/rcp usr.bin/rlogin usr.bin/rsh

[Dmitry Sivachenko]

> On 5 марта 2015 г., at 17:09, David Chisnall <theraven at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On 5 Mar 2015, at 14:04, Dmitry Sivachenko <demon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> It is so nice to have most useful stuff out of the box.
> 
> The question is whether a tool for logging into remote machines without encryption is 'the most useful stuff'.  The tool is also [ab]used for network testing, but we already provide a better tool for that in the form of nc(1).
> 


Well.  Speaking of telnet, it does provide encryption AFAIK.

Speaking of what is "better" and what is not, there is such a thing like "habit".  If it does not require much effort to maintain it, better leave it as is.
I personally often use telnet to connect to TCP-based services to test things, I need no encryption at all and I see no reason to switch to another tool (even if it is "better" in some sense).