Re: [TCLUG:10915] Asking the Impossible?

[Kevin Bullock <kbullock@ringworld.org>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Jonathan Kline wrote:

> Does anyone know if it is possible to have a virtual console on one
> computer act like a telnet session on another computer?  Or map virtual
> console from one pc to another?
> 	So instead of alt F8 going to localhost, it would go to another
> computer on the local network?

The cheap hack I devised with my dumb terminals (old 386s and such) was to
create a user "telnet" whose login shell was /sbin/telnet-hostname, which
was a shell script that was basically:

exec telnet hostname

I couldn't find an easier way, but then I didn't really look very hard. ;p

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