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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Seeking telnet source code
Date: 14 May 94 07:02:16 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <CprtuC.Mwv@rex.uokhsc.edu> ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:

>lsloan@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Lance Sloan) writes:

>>I'm looking for telnet source code that would most likely run on BSD
>>systems.  I want to use it to limit users from connecting to certain network
>>ports and to disable the "telnet>" prompt.

>A good place to start is the Cray TELNET:
>ftp.cray.com:/src/telnet/telnet.94.02.07.NE.tar.Z

A good place to start working on telnet source for a BSD system is
from a Cray-specific piece of work?  Pardon me if I scoff a bit...

NetBSD telnet source can be found on ftp.iastate.edu in the
/pub/netbsd/NetBSD-current/src/src/usr.bin/telnet/ directory.  Telnetd
would be in the .../libexec/telnetd/ directory.

But remember, just as easily as you can get a copy and built it
yourself, so can your users.  This sounds like a (bad) technological
band-aid for a social problem.  If someone doesn't like your
restricted telnet, there's nothing to stop them from building their
own copy and using it instead.  Just my two bits...



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    michaelv@iastate.edu                    Project Vincent Systems Staff
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