I think, rsh is quite obsolete

[Mike Klinke]

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 19:53, Dave Jones wrote:

> But for Fedora, I can't think of a valid reason why someone would
> want to enable a telnetd given the security concerns of non
> encrypted sessions.

Small embedded systems use telnet servers and clients because of the 
low overhead. Look at the Dallas Semi-conductor's TINI for an 
example. It is quite handy to be able to telnet to a PC hosting 
telnetd from one of these devices.

Regards, Mike Klinke