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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
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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