Re: Building Apple Open Source Tool
Re: Building Apple Open Source Tool
- Subject: Re: Building Apple Open Source Tool
- From: Sandor Szatmari <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:58:28 -0500
Thanks,
I’ll check them out, maybe their source would be better to modify.
Sandor
> On Mar 6, 2019, at 14:16, Brendan Shanks <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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