From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 21:08:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA07012 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from nike.efn.org (gurney_j@haus.efn.org [198.68.17.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA07007 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gurney_j@localhost) by nike.efn.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA06122; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:08:52 -0800 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:08:50 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: rcummins cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet to www.rutgers.edu starts Lynx. How? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, rcummins wrote: > As the subject says, if one telnets to www.rutgers.edu, they have > Lynx run automatically w/o asking for a login. I assume they replaced > telnetd with something, or did they hack it? How'd they do that? Clues, > suggestions, or even an actual answer would be appreciated. take a look at inetd.conf... it is most likely where they changed it... probablly just put a line like this in place of telnetd's line: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/lynx lynx -anonymous and played around with the lynx.cfg file to make sure that they can't do something bad... hope this helps... TTYL... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix) GCS/M/Sd#h+s+!gau-a--w++++vC+++++UF++++P---E---N++W---M--V--Y+t+5++G+b+D++ B----eu+h++!f++n---- CD5OUF++++.L-------2W.DM----N.9---NET2SP3s.2,4s.,4d.2,6---