[BusyBox] How I got telnetd to run / base filesystem tarball

[Bruce Edge]

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> There has been several people asking about this but I have 
> not seen any
> solid answers.
> 
> Here is what I did to get my diskless nodes to run telnetd.  
> Part of the
> problem with this
> is that telnetd is considered a security risk and has been 
> removed from
> most default
> distribution installations and replaced with ssh along with all the
> supporting documentation.
> Also I was not ever successful using the predeclared devices or using
> inetd.  This is probably
> my own fault because of a lack of understanding.
> 
> 

[snip nice telnet howto]


First, thanks for the details instructions here.

Second, this supports what I was getting at, that is makeing some of the busybox functions actually work is a lot more work that it should be.

Lastly, thanks also to Erik Andersen for pointing me to:
 http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/
It's exactly what I needed. I don't need telnet now, I have ssh :-)

Why isn't this project more visible? I never would have found it if not for the pointer?

-Bruce