[Web4lib] Windows Vista defaults to no telnet client

[John Fereira]

Raymond Wood wrote:
> Allegedly, on Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:43:13PM -0400, Thomas Dowling stated:
>   
>> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/93952/93952.html
>>
>> Not the issue it once was, but Windows Vista will default to not
>> having a telnet client; you can enable it, but it's several layers
>> deep in the Control Panel.  Of course, since the Windows telnet app
>> was chronically the worst telnet available, maybe that's a good thing.
>>
>> I'm just assuming that there's no ssh client either.
>>
>> Thomas Dowling
>>     
>
> I find that a combination telnet/ssh client such as 'putty' is
> indispensible when I am working on the Windows platform.
>
> As a matter of interest, are there any other freeware[1] ssh clients
> that people prefer over 'putty' (on Windows) ?
>   
No.  We have a multi-use license for the SSH Secure Shell client 
(www.ssh.com) but for some things I prefer to use Putty (primarily for 
CVS tunneling)