telnetd without inetd

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Doug Silver wrote:

Oh no I was just wondering about the need for an "internet super-server"
to essentially serve one daemon.


> On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:19 pm, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> > Is there a way to run telnetd in "standalone" mode, i.e. without inetd?
> > We have a system that we sometimes need to connect to from within a cisco
> > router, which can't do ssh (and not from anywhere else, we've firewalled
> > it as such).
> >
> > -Dan Mahoney
> >
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> > "If you aren't going to try something, then we might as well just be
> > friends."
> >
> > "We can't have that now, can we?"
> >
> > -SK & Dan Mahoney,  December 9, 1998
> >
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> Are you just concerned about running it through inetd?  What about the
> alternative xinetd?  If you already have it firewalled, I'm not sure what
> your concern is about running it through inetd.  I don't know if you can run
> telnetd as a standalone daemon, but if that's the only service that's enabled
> in inetd.conf, does it matter?
>
> FWIW, you can further lock down access in the hosts.allow file.
>
> -doug
>

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