How can I enable the Telnet service on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? Can somebody include a detailed description about the needed packages and configurations and use it and what are it's advantages?
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There is zero advantages.
It's unencrypted, and obsolete. SSH has taken over. SSH is secure, and it supports secure file transfer in addition to secure login.
There's zero reasons to deploy telnet today. Even the simplest computers running a general purpose OS has CPU and RAM enough to host a ssh daemon.
In short: you do not want to enable telnet, and if you believe you want to enable telnet you are mistaken.
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