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Originally Posted by xor_
a) First I tried starting telnet through the plugin, which didn't work. Same symptom as you had, connection closing immediately.
Then I did it exactly as specified in the Wiki page, i.e., starting it through /etc/inittab. That worked. |
Ah I see, thanks. Indeed I just did the same (ftp access made it much easier) and yeah, it works.
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b) In general it's not a very good idea to have a telnetd runnning without having set a root password
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True... this is why I wanted it switchable from the plugin (one button to start it, one button to kill it). I'll work some more to see if I can make it happen. In the meantime, thanks!
[edit] alrighty, I think I got it: mounting /dev/pts was broken. It seems like it works great from rcS, but not when spawned from manual script (at least not the way I explained in first post).
Now that I did what the wiki says for rcS, and my .sh is just starting inetd, it works!