Hi. On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 11:52:51AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hopefully this is readable.
It is. Threading is broken, as usual. > > Hence aforementioned "echo" command above. > > Ie. > > 2) echo 'telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd > > /usr/sbin/telnetd -a none -E /bin/bash' >> /etc/inetd.conf > > To my understanding that would wipe out all the other services. > I read your instruction as illustrative rather than literal. No, ">>" is interpreted as "append" by any POSIX-compliant shell. Your contents of inetd.conf are safe ;) > With any luck, maintainers will remove the legacy telnetd > from distribution; sooner or later. As long as they keep busybox intact - there's little harm in removing telnetd. Reco
