how to setup /run telnet server

[Craig Hagerman]

On 3/24/06, Patrick Siglin <poison at list.memphistw.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 23:53 -0800, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> > Patrick Siglin wrote:> >
> Man that wasn't the message I read. 8-) I must have been in my own
> world. I saw telnet and instantly responded ssh. OOps. I still can not
> see a valid reason to run telnet if ssh is in place. Oh well I will be
> sure to read the entire message next time.
>

Ahh... me too... I didn't read down the whole way.....
I have two reasons for using telnet. The server in question is in
Canada in my parent's basement with mythttv set up on it. I live in
Japan and am in Canada for a couple weeks now when I can tweak the
server. The newest version of mythtv allows remost connections to the
frontend via telnet. (telnet ONLY, no ssh at this point). This will
allow me to control the frontend from a remote location (ie Japan).

The second reason is that even with the security issues I really want
to have a secondary way into the box. I was last here in August.
Sometime around October I modified the sshd.config file (remotely) and
for some reason sshd wouldn't run anymore. So the server was running
on it's own with no way for me to access it (and no one here who can
do anything with a headless machine in the basement) for several
months. THAT alone is worth less security to me right now.

Craig