Re: [uml-devel] Generalized input

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Jeff Dike  wrote:
>'socket:port' - you name a port number on the host and this attaches the uml 
>device to it, allowing it to be accessed from the net without needing to set 
>up networking and not needing root privs for anything.  You attach to it with 
>'telnet umlhost port'.  This doesn't actually work very well.  It works better 
>if you do 'mode character' at the telnet command line.  But you still can't 
>log in.  The reason is that telnet is sending telnet protocol across the port, 
>but the getty on the other side is just interpretting it as you typing bogus 
>usernames and passwords.

If you just use a TCP client that doesn't send telnet protocol
characters, such as netcat (/usr/bin/nc), this should work.

>So, what I need, and can't find, is a telnetd that's willing to attach to a 
>device rather than a port.

My telnetd is able to be run from inetd, which attaches fds 0,1,2
to the network socket before execing telnetd.  Have you tried
running telnetd with fds 0,1,2 attached to the device?  It just
might work.