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Apple's Telnet and FTP are back in this homebrew pull request. That includes both the server and client of each one.

Note also that `cmd-opt-p-r` doesn't seem to trigger NVRAM reset and holding the power button in does trigger the update blink and sound, but nothing happens.

As napabar explained, only the telnet client is available in homebrew. No server. Plus, what about ftp, rsh, rcp, etc.? Don't just say to use the the GNU inetutils, as they can be buggy on OS X. No surprise; they are hardly ever used on this system. Now people basically have no alternative. Not to mention that the last stable release of it was in 2015.Frankly, Apple has no excuse for removing these tools. Pushing ssh is pointless; the reason that people don't use ssh is NOT because there are alternatives available. The reasons that people don't use ssh are typically one of:they have no choice, orencryption is NOT needed or wanted in their use caseTrying to force ssh down people's throats is not going to work. There are simply places where ssh can't go, shouldn't go, or isn't allowed to go.Yeah, despite popular belief, locking everything up is not always needed. Again, it's a real shame that Apple always pushes stupid agendas like this for no real reason. It's just pointless and painful. But when has Apple cared about forcing people to go through pointless and painful changes, after all?Maybe all this sounds hard on Apple. But take a step back and ask yourself: does it hurt a multi-billion dollar company to just let their developers and power-users have what they want / need? Of course not. They just either get a rush out of controlling their customers and / or they convince themselves of stupid reasons as to why that's a good thing.By the way, I'm not angry at you, iTen. I'm just saying the homebrew is unfortunately not sufficient for this issue. And I'm angry that Apple forces people to jump through these pointless hoops just to get some needed functionality.

Removing these programs from the standard install has no justification whatsoever. They will eventually have to be used and forcing users to download and install someone else's coreutils is just outrageous.EDIT:Also I just tried using the GNU inetutils and they are buggy on OS X. Which is no surprise, they aren't meant for this system which makes removing the BSD ones even more ludicrous.

I sure hope this change is temporary and that these standard utilities will be back once 10.13 is out of beta. It would be utter folly to remove these utilities, regardless of their "insecurity." To be honest, whoever uses these protocols without the knowledge that they are insecure has no business using networking utilities at all. I mean, for goodness sake, I thought it was well known that not every host has the luxury of running `sshd'.TLDR:These programs are absolutely necessary. Removing them is tantamount to removing all doors without locks because locked doors are "better."

I'm referring to the system sharing function, not developing an extension for Safari though...