From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 1 13:52:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.ucsc.edu (root.ucsc.edu [128.114.129.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F0637B402 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:52:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from booloo@localhost) by root.ucsc.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g11LqGp88660 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:52:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from booloo) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:52:16 -0800 From: Mark Boolootian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: where does authentication happen in telnetd? Message-ID: <20020201135216.A87933@root.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: booloo@cats.ucsc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, Can anyone give me a general pointer to where in telnetd the user is authenticated (assuming normal authentication is being used)? I'm looking at the code in /usr/src/libexec/telnetd Maybe I should ask the meta question: I've got a box which can normally only accessed via ssh. I want to allow telnet access to a specific account (for providing network status). The only way I can think of to accomplish this is to hack the telnet daemon to permit only this one user. Are there any alternatives? Thanks very much, mb --- Mark Boolootian UC Santa Cruz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message