From owner-cvs-all Wed May 23 23:38: 0 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311B637B424; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4O6bqM90563; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF8B380C; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:37:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Matt Dillon Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/telnet commands.c main.c telnet.1 In-Reply-To: <200105232247.f4NMlHs55590@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:37:51 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010524063751.EEF8B380C@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon wrote: > dillon 2001/05/23 15:47:17 PDT > > Modified files: > usr.bin/telnet commands.c main.c telnet.1 > Log: > A feature to allow one to telnet to a unix domain socket. > > Obtained from: Lyndon Nerenberg I seem to recall patches like this that were kicking around a long time ago... except that they also allowed telnetd to run on a unix domain socket and allowed a different program to be run on them. eg: run something else other than login(1). This was kind of bizzare but it allowed you to run controlled portals outside of chroot jails (as they existed years ago). I actually got to use them about 6 years ago on FreeBSD 2.2 and antique SVR4/386 systems. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message