From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 13:02:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED39437B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.urchin.com (ns2.quantified.com [63.212.171.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B10A43F85 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) Received: from support.urchin.com (support.urchin.com [63.212.171.7]) by mail.urchin.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h54K2u1U030328; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:02:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) Received: from danzig.sd.quantified.net (web.urchin.com [63.212.171.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by support.urchin.com (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h54K3fxU055872; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:03:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) From: Doug Silver Organization: Urchin Software Corporation To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" , questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:02:55 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030604151803.E52462-100000@prime.gushi.org> In-Reply-To: <20030604151803.E52462-100000@prime.gushi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306041302.33665.dsilver@urchin.com> X-Filter-Version: 1.7 (mail.urchin.com) Subject: Re: telnetd without inetd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 20:02:38 -0000 On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:19 pm, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Is there a way to run telnetd in "standalone" mode, i.e. without inetd? > We have a system that we sometimes need to connect to from within a cisco > router, which can't do ssh (and not from anywhere else, we've firewalled > it as such). > > -Dan Mahoney > > -- > > "If you aren't going to try something, then we might as well just be > friends." > > "We can't have that now, can we?" > > -SK & Dan Mahoney, December 9, 1998 > > --------Dan Mahoney-------- > Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek > Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC > ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM > Site: http://www.gushi.org > --------------------------- Are you just concerned about running it through inetd? What about the alternative xinetd? If you already have it firewalled, I'm not sure what your concern is about running it through inetd. I don't know if you can run telnetd as a standalone daemon, but if that's the only service that's enabled in inetd.conf, does it matter? FWIW, you can further lock down access in the hosts.allow file. -doug