[plug] rlogin by default?

[John Breen]

hmmm...

didn't work for me.  i get a lovely black bit on the screen, then a msg
about remotegetty is spawning too fast...

oh well...


On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 06:18, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:11:26AM +0800, John Breen wrote:
> > On a "normal" tty the login process is handled by "login", which then
> > passes control to getty, mgetty, etc...
> > 
> > I would like to be able on my box to have a couple of ttys which do
> > "rlogin" by default.  That is, I want to log in on the tty directly to
> > snother machine without having to login and use ssh to connect and login
> > again.
> > 
> > Is this do-able?  I thought /etc/inittab would help but apparently not.
> 
> John,
> 
> This is what I have done on my machine. There are probably better
> ways, but:
> 
> In /etc/inittab:
> 
> ----
> 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -n -l /sbin/remotegetty 38400 tty6
> ----
> 
> And /sbin/remotegetty (another of my dodgy scripts :)
> 
> ----
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> clear
> echo "Server: dagobah.home"
> echo -n "Username: "
> read
> su - nobody -c "rsh -l $REPLY dagobah.home"
> ----
> 
> The su on the last line is to avoid my rhosts (*cough*, internal
> network) letting people/me log in passwordless (it otherwise runs as
> the root user).
> 
> You could probably neaten this solution up and have the server name
> as a parameter or something more elegant, but this is what I use and
> it works.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Bernard.
> 
> -- 
>  Bernard Blackham
>  bernard at blackham.com.au
> 
>