Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Internet communications protocol that enables a computer to function as a terminal working from a remote computer.
- noun A program that implements this protocol.
- intransitive verb To access an account over the Internet using the Telnet protocol.
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- noun computing A
network protocol that enables onecomputer to communicate with another via theInternet ; theprogram that acts as theclient in this situation - verb computing, intransitive To use such a program to make such a connection
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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What the commands do is to use an internet protocol called telnet to access a remote telnet site.
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It's easy enough to add telnet, which is an optional feature of Windows Server
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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
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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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
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DOS or 4NT windows, but "telnet" exits immediately when invoked inside a "M-x shell" buffer …
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Especially on UNIX and LINUX systems, there are command-line client programs for the ftp protocols, which, confusingly, are named "telnet" and "ftp" commands.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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It supports a wide variety of communication protocols such as telnet, rlogin, serial port and modem.
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It's OK for 'telnet' by this telnet smtp. mail.yahoo.com 25 220 smtp111. plus.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ESMTP quit
ASP.NET Forums 2009
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Especially on UNIX and LINUX systems, there are command-line client programs for the ftp protocols, which, confusingly, are named "telnet" and "ftp" commands.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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