From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:22:55 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add option for standalone telnetd on target In-Reply-To: <1426066527-23021-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> (Alexey Brodkin's message of "Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:35:27 +0300") References: <1426066527-23021-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <877funmrkw.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Alexey" == Alexey Brodkin writes: > If target has connection to the network it might be pretty useful to > have telnet connection to it instead of serial console or even in > addition to serial console. > Even though it's possible to add telnetd on target manually via: > [a] Busybox - with "make busybox-menuconfig" and in "Networking > Utilities" select "telnetd" > [b] xinetd > Still additional manual steps will be required to allow root login over > telnet. > With this change it will be possible to get telnetd built and installed > on target with only enabling BR2_SYSTEM_STANDALONE_TELNETD option in > Buildroot configuration utility or in boards defconfig. > Note that telnetd won't auto-start on boot because of securilty concerns > - until user manually starts telnetd while connected via serial console > there's no chance for unexpected root access to the target (this is > especially true if root has no password set - which is by defult). Any specific reason why you don't just configure a root password and enable dropbear instead? -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard