Connect to telnet with another user

Fri Mar 27 08:34:57 UTC 2015

On March 26, 2015 11:40:59 AM GMT+01:00, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>Hi Alexis,
>
>On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:34:48AM +0100, Alexis Guilloteau wrote:
>> When trying to connect to the telnet daemon a user and password is
>asked
>> and it seems only root superuser is accepted.
>> 
>> My passwd file is like this :
>> root::0:0:root:/:/bin/sh
>> telnet:telnet:3:0:telnet:/:/bin/sh
>
>The password field must be encrypted; see the passwd(5) man page. You
>can use 
>the mkpasswd utility from the whois package to generate one.

We have both cryptpw as well as mkpasswd in busybox, FYI.

Cheers,