From owner-cvs-all Thu May 24 0:10:18 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B928637B422; Thu, 24 May 2001 00:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4O7ADM90710; Thu, 24 May 2001 00:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8884F380C; Thu, 24 May 2001 00:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Matt Dillon Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/telnet commands.c main.c telnet.1 In-Reply-To: <200105240649.f4O6nK022109@earth.backplane.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:10:13 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010524071013.8884F380C@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon wrote: > > : > :I seem to recall patches like this that were kicking around a long time > :ago... except that they also allowed telnetd to run on a unix domain socket > :and allowed a different program to be run on them. eg: run something else > :other than login(1). This was kind of bizzare but it allowed you to run > :controlled portals outside of chroot jails (as they existed years ago). I > :actually got to use them about 6 years ago on FreeBSD 2.2 and antique > :SVR4/386 systems. > : > :Cheers, > :-Peter > :-- > :Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au > > Bizarre... but how about giving inetd the capability to sit on a > unix domain socket? Now *that* would be interesting. In my case, it was kinda bizzare as it was using linemode etc when possible. Yes, inetd would be the logical better place, but I fear going near that bloated pig^H^H^H^H^H^H^H uhh... "opaque" code. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message