telnet

[Dr M J Carter]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 10:56:28AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> I’m surprised there is no telnet under standard macOS.

I'm not: it, and FTP, are horribly insecure.  The corresponding
server-end daemons are (or should be) turned off on most sites in the
interests of self-defence, and replaced by use of SSH.

> Is there a macport? and if, what’s the package name?

$ port search telnet
inetutils @1.9.4_11 (net)
    Inetutils is a collection of common network programs, including ftp, telnet,
    rsh, rlogin, tftp and the corresponding daemons.

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Dr Martin J Carter
Computer System Administrator
Astrophysics, University of Oxford