For your reading pleasure, you can go to
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc818.html and read the rfc for
"The Remote User Telnet Service" (rtelnet). Although it was written in
1982, I didn't see any mention of "socks".
At 03:12 PM 9/26/00 +0100, Darryl Bowler wrote:
>1) I assume that the users do not have telnet access to these machine to
>change their passwords. Maybe this is means to allow them to change their
>password. I would clarify this with the sys admin, maybe technical
>feasiable, but I have never heard of anyone doing this before.
>
>2) rtelnet, is the sockified version of telnet, are you using socks
>somewhere ?
>
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ivan
>Fox
>Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 12:53 AM
>To: fw-1-mailinglist (e-mail)
>Subject: [FW1] Does ftp require rtelnet
>
>
>
>A ftp server is setup on AIX v4.3.2 behind a firewall. Therefore we setup a
>rule to allow incoming traffic as "source destination ftp accept". But the
>ftp administrator comes and requests to change the rule to "source
>destination ftp/rtelnet (port 107) accept". He explains that without
>rtelnet, users cannot change their passwords.
>
>Being unfamiliar with AIX or Unix, your comments are appreciated.
>
>1) Is it necessary?
>2) Why rtelnet, not telnet?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ivan
>
>
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