telnet server auth without password, how ?

hi all,

how can i setup/configure a telnet server service that doesnt ask for a
password ?
i just want to login using my username but without supplying a password.

please dont ask WHY i whant to this, i know this will cause a security
problem
in generell, but i have to so

is there a way of achieving this with a windows 2000 (or windows 2003)
server ?

thanks in advance

cheers

joerg

On 9/13/2005 10:27, joerg mauz wrote:
> how can i setup/configure a telnet server service that doesnt ask for a
> password ?
> i just want to login using my username but without supplying a password.

Why not just create a user with no password. It's not really any less
secure than what you're proposing.

I wonder, why not use psexec (part of pstools from sysinternals) in a
script to do what you need?

~Jason

--

> Why not just create a user with no password. It's not really any less
> secure than what you're proposing.

we have to use our existing user accounts, because these users should
compile
some programs under their own user-id. so my login script maps their home
drive and stuff like that


> I wonder, why not use psexec (part of pstools from sysinternals) in a
> script to do what you need?

we dont run a telnet client from a windows machine, so we can not use psexec
or nativ mircosoft tools for this task ;-)

any other ideas ?

cheers
joerg

On 9/13/2005 11:49, joerg mauz wrote:
>> I wonder, why not use psexec (part of pstools from sysinternals) in a
>> script to do what you need?
>
> we dont run a telnet client from a windows machine, so we can not use psexec
> or nativ mircosoft tools for this task ;-)

Ahh, I understand. Maybe the answer is an expect script and stored
passwords? I don't know the language, but I understand people use it to
automate the tough to automate things.

Maybe another option is you could run the cygwin port of sshd on windows
and use key authentication on your other machines?

~Jason

--

> Ahh, I understand. Maybe the answer is an expect script and stored
> passwords? I don't know the language, but I understand people use it to
> automate the tough to automate things.

we already thought about using expect, because we already make use of this
trick in several other situations.. but then we have to store cleartext
passwords


> Maybe another option is you could run the cygwin port of sshd on windows
> and use key authentication on your other machines?

if found a rshd for windows (http://www.denicomp.com/rshdnt.htm) that works
perfectly for what i want to use this piece of software. and it's not that
ugly
to administrated that cygwin's rhsd is.


anyway, thanks for your ideas..

cheers

joerg