I'm trying to find the list archive to see what the original question was ... Anyway, I'm not sure if this is relevant or not but you can get a shell from telnet. Hit the escape char ^] to get to a telnet> prompt which allows you to type ! to get a shell. You may just want to strip that stuff from your telnet client prior to allowing people to access it. Joshua Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 "The irony of this man being imprisoned in the United States and longing to return to once-Communist Russia so he can regain his right to free speech is simply staggering." - someone else On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > Set up the user's shell to be a script or program that just runs telnet? > > yeah, that already occured to me. just wondering if people had other, more > creative ideas. :) > > Carl Soderstrom > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >