[plug] Linux replacing terminal server

[Cameron Patrick]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:09:57AM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
| Just wondering if there's a perversion of getty that would
| automatically allow a Linux box to present its serial ports to dumb
| terminals as though it were connecting straight through to another
| host. i.e. to act like a dedidated terminal server.

Why do you want or need to use getty at all?  Unless I'm missing
something, a simple shell script would do the trick.

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#! /bin/sh
exec <$1 >$1 2>$1

export TERM=whatever
export SHELL=/bin/false  # telnet subshell paranoia
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
# etc

stty [stuff appropriate to your terminals]

while true; do
	clear
	telnet server.host.name
done
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As far as I can tell, this shouldn't be a security problem.  If you're
paranoid about telnet having holes you could run it as user nobody in a
chroot gaol.  (man telnet on my machine mentions the ! command for
running a subshell, but it doesn't actually work so far as I can tell.)

CP.