Thread: telnetd on a K4
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Old 07-25-2013, 05:43 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Oddbloke View Post
I'd like to control the Kindles by telnet rather than ssh - I know it's not particularly secure, but it makes it much easier to write code for my Linuxbox server if I'm just sending Kindles commands via telnet. It's only my home network, so I'm not too concerned about security.
You can use the ssh daemon as a replacement for rsh.
Which allows you to run shell commands / scripts on the remote machine.

Examples given in my series of ssh HowTo threads:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=204942

Which was written to introduce the concept of local scripting of remote actions.
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