Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An Internet communications protocol that enables a computer to function as a terminal working from a remote computer.
- n. A program that implements this protocol.
- v. To access an account over the Internet using the Telnet protocol: telnetted from her work computer to her university account.
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Etymologies
- telecommunication network (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The hacker clan that discovered a vulnerability in telnet on BSD and created an exploit to demonstrate the extent of the bug are all hottenbothered because Bugtraq, a venerable security-alert mailinglist posted the exploit, despite a header that forbade such action.”
“What the commands do is to use an internet protocol called telnet to access a remote telnet site.”
“It's easy enough to add telnet, which is an optional feature of Windows Server”
“Older protocols for remote access such as telnet, send information such as telnet, send information such as usernames and password in clear text and may have other security loop holes”
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“My configuration is almost the same as yours except: 1, (tramp-login-args (( "- telnet") ( "% h"))); 2, I didn't configure tramp-password-end-of-line. - lgfang”
“DOS or 4NT windows, but "telnet" exits immediately when invoked inside a "M-x shell" buffer …”
“Especially on UNIX and LINUX systems, there are command-line client programs for the ftp protocols, which, confusingly, are named "telnet" and "ftp" commands.”
“It supports a wide variety of communication protocols such as telnet, rlogin, serial port and modem.”
“It's OK for 'telnet' by this telnet smtp. mail.yahoo.com 25 220 smtp111. plus.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ESMTP quit”
“Devices that have some type of remote (WAN) administration enabled, such as telnet, SSH, or Web-based access-providing only local access is not vulnerable.”
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