On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Mikhail Kruk wrote:

> And finally setup your telnetd so that it will print a message saying
> "telnet is insecure. please use ssh" etc. It will display this message,
> sleep for 60 seconds and then run normal telnetd. Most people will just
> sit there and wait for 60 seconds, then use telnet. After one or two month
> of this torture disable telnetd for good (keep the message, but don't run
> telnetd). People will download ssh and think "Thank God, I don't have to
> wait for 60 seconds now! I love that SSH thing!"
> That's what our sysadmin did (shell server used by some 4000 undergrads)
> and it worked.

While not a bad idea in the .edu universe, if I tried to pull that on our
development servers, I'd have a torrent of angry email not only from
developers but their managers. Being accountable sucks. :)

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