[H-GEN] using telnet

Christopher Biggs listjunkie at pobox.com
Wed Apr 2 18:46:52 EST 2003


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barry day <hotforce at bigpond.com> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>
> Is there a way of sending or receiving files with telnet?

Yes, but not using the vanilla telnet client.  Kermit can do telnet
sessions as well as modem dialout---"kermit -J hostname" will give you
a telnet session, with automagic kermit receive.   This is how the
notorious "Chaos Computer Club" East-German hackers leached files from
Lawrence Berkeley Labs back in the 80s, using end-to-end kermit over a
torturous and obfuscated chain of compromised systems.

If on the remote host you incant "kermit -s <filename>", the magic occurs.

#include <but_nowadays_I_almost_always_use_ssh_instead.h>

--cjb

p.s. If you're using debian, you need the non-free kermit package, not
     the lobotomized (but GPLd) subset.


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