[Buildroot] Telnet server in target file system

[Buildroot] Telnet server in target file system

[Ran Shalit]

Hello,

I would like to ask how is best to add telnet support in target file system.
Is it required to add NETKITTELNET package
Symbol: BR2_PACKAGE_NETKITTELNET

Or is it suffecient to add TELNETD option in busybox.

Regards,
Ran

[Buildroot] Telnet server in target file system

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Ran,

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:04:26PM +0300, Ran Shalit wrote:
> I would like to ask how is best to add telnet support in target file system.
> Is it required to add NETKITTELNET package
> Symbol: BR2_PACKAGE_NETKITTELNET
> 
> Or is it suffecient to add TELNETD option in busybox.

The netkittelnet package is not in Buildroot since the 2014.02 release[1]. For 
more recent Buildroot versions your only option is to modify the Busybox 
.config to add TELNETD.

[1] http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=560fe85bf7fb81956e80848c8bb28d7a6d00a2a2

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[Buildroot] Telnet server in target file system

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Ran,
See reply below...

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Ran Shalit wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:04:26 +0300
> From: Ran Shalit <ranshalit@gmail.com>
> To: buildroot at busybox.net
> Subject: [Buildroot] Telnet server in target file system
> 
> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask how is best to add telnet support in target file system.
> Is it required to add NETKITTELNET package
> Symbol: BR2_PACKAGE_NETKITTELNET
>
> Or is it suffecient to add TELNETD option in busybox.
>
> Regards,
> Ran
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Quoting Arnaud Aujon arnaud.aujon on this list from Fri Dec 13 17:51:45 
UTC 2013:

"The 'netkittelnet' package has been removed, since it has been deprecated 
since 2012.11. 'busybox' provides a telnet client and should be used 
instead."

See also in the menuconfig top level menu "Legacy config options  --->" 
"netkittelnet has been removed". If you select a legacy option, or you try 
to build a rootfs using a new Buildroot version with an old .config file 
that has the BR2_PACKAGE_NETKITTELNET set, then the Buildroot make will 
fail with

Makefile.legacy:12: *** "You have legacy configuration in your .config! 
Please check your configuration.".  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yba/x86_64/buildroot'
make: *** [all] Error 2

So yes, use the BusyBox telnetd server.

Best regards,

  - yba


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