alt Hacker NewsTelnet nowadays typically isn’t available by default for security reasons, and OP wants people to be able to play the game just by typing “ssh thegamehost”.
Telnet nowadays typically isn’t available by default for security reasons, and OP wants people to be able to play the game just by typing “ssh thegamehost”.
> Telnet nowadays typically isn’t available by default for security reasons
And with good reason. This CVE is from yesterday:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24061
> telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.