Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:42, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Dan Johansson wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 April 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Dan Johansson wrote: > >> > On Monday 24 April 2006 20:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> >> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Nick Rout wrote: Piping to telnet worked with netkit-telnetd's client but not telnet-bsd's Then the software is really broken... Standard behaviour of telnet is to NOT read from stdin. That's, why there is netcat. Alexander Skwar -- Book: "They'll come at you sideways. It's how they think:

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dan Johansson wrote: On Tuesday 25 April 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: > On Monday 24 April 2006 20:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: >> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: >> > I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any [...] >> I th

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 20:31 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > "rm -f /sbin/init" should remove the possibility of accidents :) No, it wouldn't. People could still - by accident, of course - append init=/bin/bash to their kernel command line. However, you'd need to try hard to create an acciden

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 18:58, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd': > Piping to telnet worked with netkit-telnetd's client but not > telnet-bsd's Sound like one opens a new pty and the other just uses std{in

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Nick Rout
Just a warning, the netkit-telnetd and telnet-bsd clients do not work identically. I was recently testing some remote control software that connected to a remote telnet port. The software would issue command like: echo jump mainmenu | telnet mythtvbox 6546 Piping to telnet worked with netkit-tel

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:10:55 -0400, Erik Zeek wrote: > Once would have been understandable, but I did mine twice (only once as > root though). It's fun to stare at the screen wondering why it's taken > 5 minutes to delete two hidden directories, followed by a scream of, > "OH SH*T!" which is imm

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread kashani
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote: You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files could accidentally get owned to another users or have its permissions changed. :-) "rm -f /sbin/init" should remove the possibility of accidents :)

RE: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Grr. I hate this keyboard. > Once would have been understandable, but I did mine twice > (only once as root though). It's fun to stare at the screen > wondering why it's taken 5 minutes to delete two hidden > directories, followed by a scream of, "OH SH*T!" which is > immediately followed by

RE: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
> -Original Message- > From: Erik Zeek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:11 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd > > On Tue April 25 2006 14:46, John Jolet wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Erik Zeek
On Tue April 25 2006 14:46, John Jolet wrote: > > I find that "rm -rf .*" works wonders for security. > > Now guys, someone new is going to try one of these!  :)  And we all know > we've done that at one time or another.  Mine was "rm -fr /* filename" >  on a running sun box. :)  during month-end p

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 1:41 PM, "Erik Zeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue April 25 2006 14:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote: >>> You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files >>> could accidentally get owned to another users or have its perm

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Erik Zeek
On Tue April 25 2006 14:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote: > > You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files > > could accidentally get owned to another users or have its permissions > > changed. :-) > > "rm -f /sbin/init" should remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote: > You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files > could accidentally get owned to another users or have its permissions > changed. :-) "rm -f /sbin/init" should remove the possibility of accidents :) -- Neil Bothwick Top

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread kashani
Dan Johansson wrote: Yes I know that I can just let the server disabled. But I was just wondering if there where any alternatives so that the server don't get started by "accident". Will probably delete the server after the emerge. Tanks for your input! You might want to delete chmod and ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Dan Johansson
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Dan Johansson wrote: > > On Monday 24 April 2006 20:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > >> > I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any > > [...] > > >> I think the on

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dan Johansson wrote: On Monday 24 April 2006 20:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any [...] I think the one I use is called 'telnet-bsd'. It's just the client... Thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-24 Thread JimD
Dan Johansson wrote: > I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any suggestions on > alternatives to netkit-telnetd. The Client must behave just like the standard > telnet-client (I have some expect-scripts using telnet). > > Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ time sudo emerge -vb

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-24 Thread Peper
> I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any suggestions > on alternatives to netkit-telnetd. The Client must behave just like the > standard telnet-client (I have some expect-scripts using telnet). netcat - the one and only. -- Best Regards, Peper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Johansson
On Monday 24 April 2006 20:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > > I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any > > suggestions on alternatives to netkit-telnetd. The Client must behave > > just like the standard telnet-client (I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-24 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/24/06, Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any suggestions on > alternatives to netkit-telnetd. The Client must behave just like the standard > telnet-client (I have some expect-scripts using telnet). > Its lightweight, I mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any suggestions on > alternatives to netkit-telnetd. The Client must behave just like the standard > telnet-client (I have some expect-scripts using telnet). > > Regards, I think

[gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Johansson
I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any suggestions on alternatives to netkit-telnetd. The Client must behave just like the standard telnet-client (I have some expect-scripts using telnet). Regards, -- Dan Johansson, ***