Removing telnet and finger?

[Jim Cheetham]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 22:47 +0200, Rainer Gutkas wrote:
> which suggests security issues for Laptops running debian systems and 
> reccomends to remove telnet and finger because they are known to have 
> securaty issues, I wondered if this is save within ubuntu.

Well, there's a difference between the client and server apps - I find
the telnet client to be as useful as netcat, although it's limited it
will at least tell you quickly if a port is responding.

So are you referring to "telnet" or "telnetd" ? "finger" or "ffingerd|
xfinferd" ?

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