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Re : Linux resource discovery...

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"Currently, we support discovery for linux resources only using Telnet protocol. But the accounts present in those linux resources can be discovered using SSH protocol."

Can you confirm that what you're actually saying here is that Linux resources can ONLY be autodetected if they have an open telnet service running?!   I find that absolutely astonishing!   I'd be shocked (and horrified) if you could produce for me one single Linux sysadmin who runs a production system that is listening for telnet connections on port 23.

Thanks for putting in the "feature request" to use ssh for auto-discovery... but I find the initial decision to use telnet for Linux auto-discovery so bizarre and ill-considered, that it makes me question whether this really an appropriate product to be using for serious security purposes.

I wasn't the one in our organization to decide to buy this product, but if I had been, this alone would've given me serious reservations about the product.

Why not just say that autodiscovery is unsupported on Linux?  As that is for all practical purposes what this bizarre design decision means.

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