From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 13:34:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA07505 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07500 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00330; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:33:22 -0700 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:33:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Chris Lavin cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial Communication In-Reply-To: <199606221451.KAA08354@only.justcompute.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, Chris Lavin wrote: > NO what I am trying to do is to use my bsd box as a com server. I want to > have people dial in to the BSD machine then get automatically get telneted > to a remote site. I don't want them to ever see the login prompt. Can you > offer any assistance? Hm. You'll have to hack getty to call telnet instead of login. I wouldn't know how to do this. You could make an account like "bbs" with no password that as it's first action in .profile telnets to the desired location. The next line will be "exit". A hypothesis. There is undoubtedly a better way. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major