Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 17:14:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> To: Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: telnetd without inetd Message-ID: <20030604160438.I57264-100000@prime.gushi.org> In-Reply-To: <200306041302.33665.dsilver@urchin.com>
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Doug Silver wrote: Oh no I was just wondering about the need for an "internet super-server" to essentially serve one daemon. > 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 > -- Pika Pika Pika! -Pikachu, of Pokemon fame. --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------
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