Reply to post: Re: Telnet IS a backdoor

Oh dear. Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop 'backdoor' was Telnet service, sighs Vodafone

JohnFen

Re: Telnet IS a backdoor

A correction (it's been a while since I've looked at this stuff, so my memory is imperfect). The telnet server is still provided by the telnetd package. It's called in.telnetd. If you use xinetd to wire this up, then you'll see the reference in its configuration file.

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