High Sierra / Mojave telnet through terminal

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High Sierra / Mojave telnet through terminal

hi,

So I was trying to enable telnet on my iMac, running High Sierra 10.13.6. Purpose is to connect to network devices that currently do not support SSH and therefore can only be accessed by telnet.

My questions;

Is it possible to get telnet back on your CLI? ssh exists, can I include telnet? (I think I read no due to 32bit)
What are my other options?

So far I tried to install putty with xcode, macports and command line utilities. It's brought me to this error message:

Liams-iMac:~ liam$ putty

(putty:15431): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:55:24.103: cannot open display:

How do other people use telnet? It's such a key tool in troubleshooting and diagnosis of problems its a shame it's been removed from the OS.

Any help is very welcomed.

Liam

Posted on Feb 24, 2019 2:57 AM

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liampe Author

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Feb 25, 2019 6:50 AM in response to kaz-k

Thank you kaz-k!

So to recap all steps taken;

Install xcode from Apple Store
then install Command Line Utilities from Apple Developer Community
run /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
run brew install telnet

No need for macports? What would be the correct steps above? (should anyone else come across this in future).

Thank you for your help!

Liam

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