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		AceJohnny2 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? > Telnet nowadays typically isn’t available by default for security reasons And with good reason. This CVE is from yesterday: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24061 > telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.

layer8 21 days ago [–]

Telnetd is the server though, and OP wouldn’t be using that.

AceJohnny2 21 days ago | [–]

ah, good point.

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