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Authored by brooks on Sep 18 2022, 8:08 AM.
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Summary

The telnetd codebase is old, unmaintained, and has a number of quality
issues. Users wishing to provide telnetd service should find a
maintained implementation. The telnet client is NOT deprecated as it is
lower risk

MFC After: 3 days

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rG FreeBSD src repository
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Buildable 47449
Build 44336: arc lint + arc unit

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 18 2022, 8:12 AM

IAC GA.

contrib/telnet/telnetd/telnetd.8
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Fixable on commit.

Bump doc date, use .Fx macro

This revision now requires review to proceed.Sep 18 2022, 10:16 AM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 18 2022, 12:38 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.