> You don't at all need to have a user account with telnet. As you said it's > an I/O redirection through sockets, so you can have written a perl script > or a C program (or anything really that can listen on sockets) that > listens on a sepcified port, and interprets commands send to it through a > telnet client connecting to that port. You are only talking from client point of view. Obviously you can connect a telnet client to every server you want but in case you want a telnet sesion (in order to have a console for running commands) you connect the telnet client to the telnet server which asks you for authentication (user/pass). If you connect a telnet client to a perl script or a C program or something that listen on sockets you are saying the same as me ! ! Netcat is that server that listen on sockets. And in my case I also use netcat as a client instead of a telnet client ! C
