Re: (PM) Question about Automatic login

Karl Denninger (karl@Mcs.Net)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:32:50 -0600

On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 03:17:30PM -0500, Jeff Woods wrote:
> We are an ISP and software manufacturer. We want our new PM-3 to act both
> as a terminal server front end to reach our software support BBS, and as
> the NAS for our ISP operations. The ISP side, cake. What I want is:
>
> If the username given at the login: prompt is "bbs", I want it to
> automatically establish a telnet session to a given IP address.
>
> Can this be done, and if so, how? The docs on page 5-7 of the
> Configuration Guide seem to indicate that it can, but they are somewhat
> cryptical. Thanks!

Sure. No big deal at all.

Try this:

bbs Password = ""
User-Service = Login-User,
Login-Service = Telnet,
Login-Host = bbs.your.domain

The user has to hit <RETURN> for the password, but other than that,
it does what you want.

You can also use "rlogin" in the service to get an 8-bit clean connect,
which is probably preferred for your use. Note that if the target machine
then "trusts" the terminal server, and has an account by the same name, that
you will sign right into the shell without a password on the system end.

This can be either good or bad, and you have to do your security planning
accordingly.

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