From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-05-03T22:46:57+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby on Port 23 without admin access

Going further you could use this (http://www.stunnel.org/) which gives
you port forwarding (its really not what its for, but it does work).

-Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dave@thomases.com [mailto:dave@thomases.com] On Behalf Of Dave
> Thomas
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:32 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Ruby on Port 23 without admin access
> 
> "Firestone, Mark - Technical Support"
<mark.firestone@gossgraphic.co.uk>
> writes:
> 
> > Ok.  Well, this is kind of a drag.  I want the software to answer
the
> telnet
> > port, but I wanted to set it up so if somehow someone found a hole
in
> it,
> > they would be stuck in one directory tree.
> >
> > If I run it as root, it could be very dangerous...
> >
> > If I run it on say, port 2323, the I suspect people will have more
> trouble
> > connecting.
> 
> You might check your firewall software. Most allow port mapping, so
> that incoming requests to port 'A' are redirected to port 'B'.
> 
> 
> Dave