In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote: > > Do you have any idea on how to setup mgetty to automatically telnet an > > incoming connection to another system. (i.e. anyone connecting to ttyS31 > > should be automatically telnetted to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.) > > > > Yes. mgetty will still prompt them for a login, but after that it will > run telnet to the remote machine and as long as the remote telnetd > supports the ENVIRON option the user will not have to type their > login twice. You need to edit the file /etc/mgetty/login.config. > This file controls what program is launched by getty (usually > /bin/login). The first field in each (non-comment) line matches the > user name and the use of '*' for a wildcard is allowed. Ordinarily > there's a line at the end (the first matching line in the file is > used) like this: > > * - - /bin/login @ > > Which means that any user logging in which doesn't match a previous > entry will have /bin/login started for them. The '@' just passes > the user name. You should replace this line with: > > * - - /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l @ target-machine > > Actually you may want to consider (for extra security) > > * nobody nobody /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l @ target-machine > > Since otherwise telnet will run as root (although -E prevents the > telnet "escape" which would allow a user to run a program).
This works as you state. However, he wants per port control to where ther telnet. I don't think this is possible. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Madness takes its toll... Please have exact change! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
