Subject: bug#56518: Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:38:33 +0200

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Robert,

>     Michael> Yep. But we're Emacs; it will take some further decades before we
>     Michael> obsolete the whole ange-ftp.el package. Not before major Linux distros
>     Michael> ban the ftp packages from their repos.
>
> Telnet is already hard to obtain in many distributions, ftp canʼt be
> far behind (although thereʼs always curl 🙂)

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Fedora 36:

# dnf list telnet
Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:43 ago on Wed 13 Jul 2022 12:31:15 PM CEST.
Installed Packages
telnet.x86_64                       1:0.17-86.fc36                       @fedora

Ubuntu 22.04:

# apt list telnet
Listing... Done
telnet/jammy,now 0.17-44build1 amd64 [installed]
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What counts for us are the (telnet, ftp) clients. The servers will still
live on old routers, NAS boxes, you name it, and those machines won't
run a modernish ssh server for access.

> Robert

Best regards, Michael.