macOS
brew install telnetlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
telnet のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。
インストール
brew install telnetlocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo apt install telnetDebian stable package indexes · telnet · ソース: deb.debian.org
sudo dnf install telnetFedora Rawhide package metadata · telnet · ソース: dl.fedoraproject.org
sudo zypper install telnetopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · telnet · ソース: download.opensuse.org
choco install telnetChocolatey community package catalog · telnet · ソース: community.chocolatey.org
scoop install main/telnetScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/telnet.json · ソース: api.github.com
概要
User interface to the TELNET protocol
履歴
telnet is the classic command-line user interface to the TELNET protocol. The protocol was standardized for the ARPA Internet in RFC 854 in May 1983 as a general bidirectional byte-oriented terminal communications facility.
The BSD-derived Apple manpage carries University of California copyright dates beginning in 1983 and describes `telnet` as a user interface to the TELNET protocol. This places the packaged client in the long Unix lineage of TCP/IP remote-login tools distributed with BSD systems and later carried by operating-system vendors.
RFC 854 defines the protocol around a Network Virtual Terminal and negotiated options, with the goal of connecting terminal devices and terminal-oriented processes across heterogeneous hosts. The companion RFC 855 documents how TELNET options were to be assigned and specified.
TELNET was once a standard remote-login mechanism on Internet and Unix systems, but its cleartext nature caused SSH to replace it for administration. The client persisted in package repositories because it remained useful for protocol debugging, legacy devices, embedded systems, MUDs, BBS-style services, and quick TCP service inspection.
Homebrew's package exists because modern macOS no longer treats telnet as a default userland tool, while Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/DNF, openSUSE/Zypper, Chocolatey, and Scoop coverage reflects ongoing cross-platform demand for the small diagnostic client.
The manpage describes invoking `telnet` with a host and optional port, or without a host to enter an interactive `telnet>` command mode. Options cover IPv4/IPv6 selection, trace files, source address selection, escape characters, `.telnetrc` handling, rlogin-like behavior, Kerberos-related authentication controls, binary mode, and optional encryption support where compiled in.
In package-manager culture, `telnet host port` became shorthand for testing whether a TCP service accepts connections, even when the remote service is not a TELNET server. That usage survives because the client is tiny, scriptable enough for manual diagnostics, and familiar across Unix-like systems.
telnet is historically significant because it is both a protocol tool and a fossil of early Internet userland. Package nerds care about it as a removed-default utility that keeps reappearing in bootstrap scripts, debugging recipes, and compatibility packages despite being inappropriate for secure login.
Its package metadata also illustrates how old network clients move from base operating systems into optional package-manager formulae as security expectations and default installs change.
セキュリティ状態
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
リスク グリーン · 信頼度 低 · appliance
エージェントに無人実行させる前に、このツールが平文の認証情報を読むか、リモート状態を書き込むか、成果物を公開するか、プラグインを起動するかを確認してください。
local files
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
~/.telnetrc実行可能ファイル
| コマンド | 種類 | 公開範囲 | メモ |
|---|---|---|---|
telnet | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル |
鮮度
これらの信号は、ページ生成時期、パッケージマネージャの活動、上流リリース比較を分けて示します。バージョン遅れは、証拠 URL と比較可能なバージョンがある場合だけ警告されます。
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/remote_cmds
インストールメタデータ
| パッケージキー | brew:telnet |
|---|---|
| バージョン | 308 |
| パッケージマネージャ | Homebrew |
| パッケージマネージャページ | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/telnet |
| ホームページ | https://opensource.apple.com/ |
| リポジトリ | https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/remote_cmds |
| 上流ドキュメント | https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/remote_cmds/blob/main/telnet/telnet.1 |
| ライセンス | BSD-4-Clause-UC AND APSL-1.0 |
| ソースアーカイブ | https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/remote_cmds/archive/refs/tags/remote_cmds-308.tar.gz |
| Bottle | 利用可能 (対象 arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma) |
| Homebrew post-install | 未定義 |
| サービス | 宣言なし |
レジストリ情報
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | telnet |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Conflicts With |
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| Requirements |
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| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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ソースデータベース一致
一致は外部パッケージマネージャインデックスから取得され、ローカルの Automic Vault パッケージリンクとは分けて表示されます。
telnet 0.17+2.6-3+deb13u3
transitional dummy package for inetutils-telnet default switch
https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/
sudo apt install telnettelnet 0.17+2.5-3ubuntu4
transitional dummy package for inetutils-telnet default switch
https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/
sudo apt install telnettelnet 0.17-96.fc44
The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol
http://web.archive.org/web/20070819111735/www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/computers/old-netkit.html
sudo dnf install telnettelnet-server 0.17-96.fc44
The server program for the Telnet remote login protocol
http://web.archive.org/web/20070819111735/www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/computers/old-netkit.html
sudo dnf install telnet-servertelnet 1.2-177.7
A client program for the telnet remote login protocol
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/telnet/
sudo zypper install telnettelnet-server 1.2-177.7
A Server Program for the Telnet Remote Login Protocol
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/telnet/
sudo zypper install telnet-servertelnet
choco install telnetmain/telnet
scoop install main/telnetソース経路
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