Telnet and TCP wrappers

[n00dles]

Im having problems with a telnet BBS. Install is fine blah blah, I've added the line below to /etc/inetd.conf, oh im using slack 10.1 and the karma system bbs.

telnet stream tcp nowait bbsuser.bbsgroup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L /home/bbs/bbs-binary

After sending a -HUP to inetd and telnet starting, I connect to what should be my BBS and nothing. It posts the issue.net, and disconnects?

I've heard of people using a thing called "telnetsnoopd" but can't find anything about it on the web. Not sure if its somthing to do with ttysnoop.
But ttysnoop? Altho I can kinda see what they mean. it seems alittle odd.

[crow2icedearth]

first of all Don't run a telnet server. Telenet is very insecure because sends clear text password over the internet . A better solution would be run a SSH server .

[flashingcurser]

I'm going to give this thread a bump. I used to use many telnet bbs's many years ago, I would be curious about your setup when your done.

Bump

crow2icedearth-- he is not trying to do administration with telnet. He is trying to set up a BBS.

As far as security goes-- can you chroot the telnet deamon? And what about a sql backend to do the authentication?


dan

[crow2icedearth]

telnet stream tcp nowait bbsuser.bbsgroup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L /home/bbs/bbs-binary

but hes still running a telnet server from is /etc/inet.d
and still asking why run a telnet server ??? if hes trying to setup a BBS there are better ways

[crow2icedearth]

typo /etc/inetd.conf .

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

using telnetd for something like this is perfectly acceptable. If security is not of a concern, then it's really a great solution.

What happens when you just run bbs-binary from a command line, not from telnetd? It's possible that there could be some error being directed to stderr, that telnetd would not post, considering that a shell that supports multiple streams hasn't been launched yet.

Does the program have any logging facilities, like in /var/log? I'd check there, too, for errors. If they've been redirected because of no stderr to go to, they might show up there, should the program support it. Heck, /var/log/messages could even show something if there was a bungle with inetd itself.

[flashingcurser]

Noodles you got us all fired up, then?... How is this progressing?


:)

dan