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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2004-09-23 20:08:46 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2004-09-23 20:08:46 +0000
commit31ec93e580fe9261020b6734dfa729734ab880e6 (patch)
tree8d50f0ab8e9bb2298f8efbf2682ea580af3701a6
parentca1c1afadc06c206455fbee35c73a3099de550d0 (diff)
downloadbusybox-31ec93e580fe9261020b6734dfa729734ab880e6.tar.gz
Add some notes on how to make telnetd actually work
-rw-r--r--networking/Config.in38
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/networking/Config.in b/networking/Config.in
index a7cef41bf..42176f050 100644
--- a/networking/Config.in
+++ b/networking/Config.in
@@ -492,11 +492,45 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_AUTOLOGIN
config CONFIG_TELNETD
bool "telnetd"
default n
+ select CONFIG_LOGIN
help
A daemon for the TELNET protocol, allowing you to log onto the host
running the daemon. Please keep in mind that the TELNET protocol
- sends passwords in plain text. If you can't afford the space for
- any SSH daemon and you trust your network, you may say 'y' here.
+ sends passwords in plain text. If you can't afford the space for an
+ SSH daemon and you trust your network, you may say 'y' here. As a
+ more secure alternative, you should seriously consider installing the
+ very small Dropbear SSH daemon instead:
+ http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
+
+ Note that for busybox telnetd to work you need several things:
+ First of all, your kernel needs:
+ CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
+ CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
+
+ Next, you need a /dev/pts directory on your root filesystem:
+
+ $ ls -ld /dev/pts
+ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 23 13:21 /dev/pts/
+
+ Next you need the pseudo terminal master multiplexer /dev/ptmx:
+
+ $ ls -la /dev/ptmx
+ crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Sep 23 13:55 /dev/ptmx
+
+ Any /dev/ttyp[0-9]* files you may have can be removed.
+ Next, you need to mount the devpts filesystem on /dev/pts using:
+
+ mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
+
+ You need to be sure that Busybox has CONFIG_LOGIN and
+ CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID enabled. And finally, you should make
+ certain that Busybox has been installed setuid root:
+
+ chown root.root /bin/busybox
+ chmod 4755 /bin/busybox
+
+ with all that done, telnetd _should_ work....
+
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_INETD
bool " Support call from inetd only"