[Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add option for standalone telnetd on target
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Mar 11 16:22:55 UTC 2015
>>>>> "Alexey" == Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> 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
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