Re: Building Apple Open Source Tool
Re: Building Apple Open Source Tool
- Subject: Re: Building Apple Open Source Tool
- From: Brendan Shanks <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:16:42 -0800
There are other rlogin clients you could try building, I don’t see built-in
support for custom ports in either one but it might avoid the other issues
you’ve been seeing.
- GNU inetutils (https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/)
- FreeBSD bsdrcmds (https://github.com/jlehen/bsdrcmds)
Brendan
> On Mar 6, 2019, at 7:42 AM, Sandor Szatmari <email@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> So… one solution, that works, ;) is to chown root:wheel and chmod u+s. This
> gives the binary the privs it needs. But Apple’s binary in /usr/bin does not
> employ this solution. I thought maybe I could sign it with my dev cert and
> go that route. But not sure what/how to configure. If nothing better comes
> along I can at least do this.
>
> Sandor
>
>> On Mar 6, 2019, at 07:15, Sandor Szatmari <email@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Alistair,
>>
>>>> On Mar 6, 2019, at 00:57, Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 5 Mar 2019, at 21:43, Sandor Szatmari <email@hidden>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a need to build rlogin to allow it to connect to a rlogin server
>>>> accessible on a non-standard specific port.
>>> I’m sure you’ve already considered this, but it’s worth having it in the
>>> mailing list archives anyway: rlogin is generally not a good idea, and
>>> unless there is some overwhelming reason why you can’t use it, ssh or
>>> slogin is a much better plan.
>>
>> Sage advice, but one our companies products supports a system integration
>> (via rlogin) with infrastructure installed decades ago, and is not going
>> away and cannot be changed. One, it’s not in our purview to change this,
>> two the equipment operates in what is considered a trusted environment. ie
>> not my choice, not my design, not in my control. But, having had to deal
>> with this over the years has given me great appreciation for the sentiment
>> you convey.
>>>
>>> If you can replace the use of rlogin, with one of the latter two, it will
>>> save you the trouble of building it.
>>
>> My goal is to have rlogin connect to a higher randomly selected port, but
>> the rlogin client provided on macOS does not appear to have a flag to
>> specify an alternate port. I want to rebuild the rlogin client with this
>> functionality grafted on. Any and all suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sandor
>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Alastair.
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://alastairs-place.net
>>>
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