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Hi all,
I need a telnet/putty text-based client for connecting to server ports. I don't like graphical putty because it doesn't save my configurations everytime it closes down, so I need something text-based/console-based that would make it all a whole lot easier for me to recall the last string entered.
Any suggestions? Doesn't matter if it's not an archlinux package.
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Well... there's "putty"...
( # pacman -S putty )
And then you can just use the "tools" without any frontends. I just use ssh (pacman -S openssh)...
# ssh user@host
> enter password: ***
host: # echo "hello host!"
host: > hello host!
but I guess it should be about the same with telnet... or not...
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Telnet
edit: Wait, after reading that again I don't get what your problem is any more - do you mean "telnet/ssh" instead of "telnet/putty"? What settings do you want to preserve / what do you want to automate? If you just don't want to enter a password for ssh every time, you could set up an ssh key.
Last edited by whoops (2009-04-06 21:54:56)
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No... I want a program that can connect to ANY tcp port, such as Telnet can... It should have all the standard options like using a proxy, logging and tunneling through ssh... But the program has to be text-based because I don't want a front-end (they suck bad).
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ssh can connect to any port. Since I have no idea what you're trying to do, it's hard to give you any valuable suggestion.
You might also be looking for something like netcat (or it's forks, like cryptcat).
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No... I want a program that can connect to ANY tcp port, such as Telnet can... It should have all the standard options like using a proxy, logging and tunneling through ssh... But the program has to be text-based because I don't want a front-end (they suck bad).
That would be the 'ssh' program...
`man ssh` will give you all the options for connecting to different ports, setting up dynamic ports forwards (aka, proxy) etc.
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what about telnet itself?
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If you just want to make raw tcp connections and type away, netcat is the generic bare bones solution. I don't know about generic tcp proxying, but tee will help you log and ssh can be used for tunneling. Wrap it in rlwrap (readline wrapper) for convenient line editing and history features.
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SSH is just secure telnet. Telnet is completely insecure by design, and I'll bet not developed very much or at all anymore.
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SSH is just secure telnet. Telnet is completely insecure by design, and I'll bet not developed very much or at all anymore.
telnet is very useful for tcp debugging.
it's not like traffic "should" always be encrypted.
plaintext (or unencrypted binary) tcp is very efficient for many protocols. think http, imap, ...
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Thanks guys... I didn't know ssh was capable of this... I thought you only used it to connect to a sshd
Last edited by SomeoneWithAPurpose (2009-04-07 12:22:16)
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If you want regular telnet, it's part of the inetutils package.
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