Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 15:33:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: REMOTE_HOST & REMOTE_USER Message-ID: <199505141933.MAA24154@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <9505122302.AA04093@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 12, 95 05:02:34 pm
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> The feature *I'd* like if anyone was interested anyway would be the
> ability to give an argument to telnetd in inetd.conf to make it run
> a program other than login (and not even prompt in the first place).
>
> This would let all those muck/mud/bbs/whatever programmers put up a
> regular program as a telnet service, yet correctly negotiate things
> like line mode protocol (by having telnetd do it on their behalf).
The problem is all those programs have a single process handling all
communications, so the model wouldnt map to multiple telnetd's, unless there
was some well to telnetd to open a pipe back to a socket or somesuch. Good
idea though, you'd think those mud/bbs folks would just pilfer the telnetd code
and use it as their frontend as well. Guess that makes too much sense :)
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
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