Re: mgetty "auto-telnet" ??
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
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