I've tried to look for this information over the net and through the archives of this list, but haven't found anything relavent. forgive me if this is redudant. =)
I'm currently trying to setup a machine i admin for a bbs--namely citadel. i want use the telnet port only for bbs access (so when you telnet to the box, it would immediately bring up the bbs client). i've created a user (bbs) that has citadel as the shell. and i modified /etc/inetd.conf to immediately login user bbs for anyone connecting through telnet. the changes i made to this file worked previously, but after a recent update to potato i was unable to make it work. this is the change i made: original: telnet (...) telnetd.telnetd (...) /usr/sbin/in.telnetd modified: telnet (...) telnetd.telnetd (...) /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L /bin/login bbs this would use the default login program (login) and pass it the argument for the user. the problem arises that telnetd thinks that "bbs" (the argument i pass to login) is a parameter to it. it then stop and doesn't allow continued login. i've tried adding quotations (single and double) around the login program and the parameters for it. but this didn't work. i've also tried using citadel as the login program itself. this doesn't work fully for some reason: any input typed in would be echoed as a second input to the system. therefore if you type in the username and pressed <enter> it would take the username as both the user name (the first prompt) and the password (the second prompt). is there a more elegant or correct way to do what i'm trying to do? i'm running a current potato with kernel 2.2.12. thanks in advance for you help. Herbert Ho
