From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D996E0030A for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:16:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 28 Nov 2011 09:16:15 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,585,1315206000"; d="scan'208";a="96126322" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.121.230]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 28 Nov 2011 09:16:14 -0800 From: Paul Eggleton To: Navani Kamal Srivastava Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:16:11 +0000 Message-ID: <2349363.2bJmlWx9te@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.7.3 (Linux/3.0.0-13-generic-pae; KDE/4.7.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <9BACABF0C6B14A4D8C33B42A795119BE096B7D3B@POCITMSEXMB02.LntUniverse.com> References: <9BACABF0C6B14A4D8C33B42A795119BE096B7D3B@POCITMSEXMB02.LntUniverse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: related to telnetd X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:16:16 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Monday 28 November 2011 09:44:42 Navani Kamal Srivastava wrote: > I am looking for "telnetd" utility so that I can take telnet session of my > board. Can you please tell me in order to include this utility in my rootfs > which packages I need to include in my *.bb file. So the first question (which you might be expecting) is, is there a good reason why you would not use ssh in preference to telnet? You could enable CONFIG_TELNETD in busybox if you really need telnetd, but for most purposes dropbear providing ssh should be enough for remote shell access. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre