[BL] serial networking and telnet server - the solution
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3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org
Wed Oct 20 16:07:54 EDT 2004
sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > > Is there some way to switch back and forth using
> > > command-line instead of inittab
> >
> > Perhaps. Try executing agetty directly (with the same
> > parameters shown in /etc/inittab).
>
> Just type out that line?
Everything from /sbin/agetty onwards.
> If I don't use inittab but type it out CLI do I omit
> respawn so I can kill it?
respawn is only used in /etc/inittab
> Is it any more insecure than going online with the
> server as root in the first place on a dialup connection?
That's the point: going online with a telnet server
running as root is insecure. BasicLinux was not designed
for that purpose; although I do realize that some users
are experimenting with that sort of thing. I am happy to
answer questions when I can, but don't want users to think
that BasicLinux is a suitable platform for running online
servers.
> This is handy so that two people can go online at the
> same time on one phone line.
That sort of thing is not insure, if you use an appropriately
configured firewall. BL1 actually came with a firewall
utility (ipfwadm) and configuration template in netsetup.
A similar utility can be added to BL2/BL3 from Slackware.
Cheers,
Steven
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