old-www/HOWTO/archived/Term-Firewall/tricks.html

155 lines
2.5 KiB
HTML

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML
><HEAD
><TITLE
>Tricks That Do Not Seem to Work</TITLE
><META
NAME="GENERATOR"
CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
REL="HOME"
TITLE="Using Term to Pierce an Internet Firewall mini-HOWTO"
HREF="index.html"><LINK
REL="PREVIOUS"
TITLE="Bugs and Term Wish List"
HREF="bugs.html"><LINK
REL="NEXT"
TITLE="Related Resources"
HREF="resources.html"></HEAD
><BODY
CLASS="SECT1"
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
TEXT="#000000"
LINK="#0000FF"
VLINK="#840084"
ALINK="#0000FF"
><DIV
CLASS="NAVHEADER"
><TABLE
SUMMARY="Header navigation table"
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TH
COLSPAN="3"
ALIGN="center"
>Using Term to Pierce an Internet Firewall mini-HOWTO</TH
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="bugs.html"
ACCESSKEY="P"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="80%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="bottom"
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="resources.html"
ACCESSKEY="N"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
NAME="TRICKS"
></A
>11. Tricks That Do Not Seem to Work</H1
><P
>Some telnet clients and servers agree to encrypt their communications,
to prevent eavesdropping on the connection. Unfortunately, the hack
used above (using the network connection that the telnet client has
set up while the telnet client is idle) won't work in that case.
Instead, one really must go through the telnet client itself, so it
can do its encryption. It seems like that requires a simple hack to
the telnet client itself, to add a command that runs a process with
its <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>stdin</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>stdout</TT
> are connected
to the live telnet connection.
This would also be useful for various bots, so perhaps someone has
already hacked it up.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="NAVFOOTER"
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"><TABLE
SUMMARY="Footer navigation table"
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="bugs.html"
ACCESSKEY="P"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="index.html"
ACCESSKEY="H"
>Home</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="resources.html"
ACCESSKEY="N"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
>Bugs and Term Wish List</TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
>&nbsp;</TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
>Related Resources</TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV
></BODY
></HTML
>