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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!barrypa From: barrypa@wam.umd.edu (Barry E. Henderson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Quick telnet question Date: 16 Jul 1993 16:20:25 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Lines: 13 Message-ID: <226kg9$qv1@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rac2.wam.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Hi, a quick question. If I have a program running in the background of a server machine that listens to a particular port (using sockets), and someone telnets to that internet address and port number, do they initiate a login shell on that server machine? Thanks. Barry Henderson barrypa@wam.umd.edu