[ale] Running a app on Telnet

[Jim Kinney]

check out anyterm.org and ajaxterm
http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/

:-)

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > <skipping the horrors of using telnet for anything but testing is a port
> is
> > active...>
> >
> > just put the launching app as the next to last line in .bashrc for the
> > incoming user account and make the last line just an exit.
> >
> > put that environment in a vm (so it can be dumped and recreated quickly)
> and
> > chroot the user environment for the telnet process. run selinux in full
> mls
> > mode and set the user context at login to mate with the app context and
> > disallow everything else (i.e. the game user can only run the game code
> and
> > exit from the shell).
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Guys,
> >>
> >> This is a bit of old school, I got a group of buddies that want to do
> >> some RPG, for you young kids that Role Playing Games, One of my
> >> buddies asked is there a way I could set up a pick your own path game
> >> for as he over sea wants to do a bit solo playing.
> >>
> >> OK where I need some input. I like to set up a app to be able to run
> >> so that he can use telnet to get to. I like to also jail the app to
> >> make it secure.
> >>
> >> Yes, I know. Text Base Pick your Path are very very old school. But me
> >> any my buddies are from back in the days of Scott Adams Adventures. I
> >> am loving this because they ask me to dust off a couple Tunnels and
> >> Trolls Pocket games that I wrote in basic ( NOT V. Basic, but the real
> >> Basic remember  10 Print  20 goto ) that I am covering to bash, but
> >> looking and putting into mysql with python.)
> >>
> >> Anyway, I know I can set it up as service and a uniq port. What I am
> >> lost how  is my friend Bod, does this...
> >>
> >> telnet mybox.com 9866
> >>
> >>
> >> That the app will start. I firgure that there a couple ppl on the list
> >> that might know how.
> >>
> >> It not as simple as when I ran a BBS.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any you can give this old geek. I am also helping my
> >> buddies, but rest up my MUD and Crossfire.
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> Lucky I have already create the VM for it. I got a script to make
> snapshots so that I can recover. Sounds like a plan, but I was trying
> to make it so Windoze users don't have to install putty. To to teach
> them can be painful.
>
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