On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, henry nelson wrote:

> off.  Idealy, rather than offer a login at all, just a message would
> be transmitted to their telnet client.

Very easy with inetd.

Instead of having inetd start the telnetd, just have it run your own
script that outputs that message.

(Or you could use tcp wrappers to output a message or run a command
instead.)

You can use the tcp wrappers to make it more secure (like only allow your
customer's IPs to access it).

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/