On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:16:26 +0000 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote: > Package: busybox > Version: 1.27.2-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainers, > > Please consider enabling telnetd in the busybox package. A tiny and > trivial patch to set the config is attached inline. A rebuild with that > change seems to work fine. > > As much as I wish it wasn't the case, telnet is still widely used, > especially in the ISP/telco world. Telcos networking engineers expect > to be able to telnet into boxes in their network even today. > > Having telnetd available without having to rebuild busybox would be > extremely handy when using Debian (or derivatives) in small boxes (eg: > arm64) inside a telecommunication provider's network. > > Thanks! > > -- > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi > > > From b9a2c82b4120a698b6350c7550f5286008892f2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:05:12 +0000 > Subject: [PATCH] Enable telnetd > > --- > debian/config/pkg/deb | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/debian/config/pkg/deb b/debian/config/pkg/deb > index 290205d99..73428dc5b 100644 > --- a/debian/config/pkg/deb > +++ b/debian/config/pkg/deb > @@ -903,8 +903,8 @@ CONFIG_TELNET=y > CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_TTYPE=y > CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_AUTOLOGIN=y > CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_WIDTH=y > -# CONFIG_TELNETD is not set > -# CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_STANDALONE is not set > +CONFIG_TELNETD=y > +CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_STANDALONE=y > # CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_INETD_WAIT is not set > CONFIG_TFTP=y > # CONFIG_TFTPD is not set > -- > 2.11.0 Dear Maintainers, Any chance this patch could be looked at? It would really help those of us in the networking world using Debian, and would make no difference for anybody else as there's no service/init script to start the daemon automatically. Thanks! -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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