Subj : Re: Linux Telnet Server...
To : tenser
From : Shurato
Date : Wed Jul 10 2024 08:29 pm
* In a message originally to Shurato, tenser said:
> On 09 Jul 2024 at 01:56a, Shurato pondered and said...
> Sh> How would I have a linux telnet server allow authentication from
> another
> Sh> app (my BBS) without it requiring a logon? I've got linux
> instructions
> Sh> for ele, but the telnet service requires a seperate login before
> Sh> accessing the system.
> There have been extensions that have done this in the past. The MIT
> Kerberos distribution used to ship with modified telnet client
> and server programs that would do krb auth instead of manual
> username/password entry. Those are long gone, though. RFC 1409
> specifies an authentication extension (likely used by kerberized
> telnet, now that I think about it...), and there was another
> extension to provide auth via DSA certificates.
> None of those are what you're looking for though, I expect. The BSD
> telnet client has a `-a` option to negotiating "autologin";
> I suspect it uses something like the BSD rcmd stuff used by rlogin
> etc. It's not clear from looking at the source code whether it's
> even still supported in any meaningful way.
> You're probably better off trying to set up rlogin or some kind of
> ssh wrapper, instead.
I was able to use mystic and then start the bbs software, so that worked
pretty well.
