On 17/10/2008, Sudarshan Soma <sudarshan12s@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks all for your valuable inputs. > > My telnet server application has its own way of handling > authentication, commands supported,.. > Hence i cant easily move to ssh. I know i can use SSH to use my own > authentication using PAM, but the other things such as commands > supported are all not easily done just by moving to ssh server. > > Based on my requirements , i think tunelling(either stunnel or ssh > tuneling) is the best option to go with, if not please suggest any > other way you could think of? Hello If your requirement is to give users a restricted shell, then perhaps you could consider ditching telnet, and using ssh and rssh? rssh describes itself as a "restricted shell for scp/sftp" but is not limited to those commands and can be configured to allow various commands to be run. Just a thought; feel free to ignore. :) http://rssh.sf.net/ Dan