Re: Telnetting to the PM

Brian Rice (bri@whitestone.com)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:49:50 -0700 (PDT)

> > What's the limit on the number of sessions which can be established
> > to a portmaster at a time via telnet?

Let me say this in terms which are a little clearer because it seems
this question has not yet been completely answered. The question, if
posed as, "How many administrative (!root) telnets does the PortMaster
allow?" The answer is 3.

> About a month ago, I tried to have 3 telnet sessions open at once to my
> PM-2E on the _command_ port (moved from 23), logged in as bangroot (I was
> experimenting with some things via "attach", which we already know is buggy
> and currently unsupported). After a few minutes of doing that, it crashed
> the PM.

In fact, it's because of the attach command, good diagnostic!

:-)

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Bri