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TITS(8)                DragonFly System Manager's Manual               TITS(8)


NAME

     tits Tiny Terminal Server


SYNOPSIS

     /usr/local/sbin/tits [config-file]


DESCRIPTION

     The tits command is a server process which provides telnet(1) or raw
     access to one or more tty ports as specified in config-file (or
     /usr/local/etc/tits.conf if no configuration file is specified on the
     command line).

     Any number of telnet(1) or raw clients may connect to a single tits port.
     Each client will see exactly the same output as well as being able to
     send keystrokes simultaneously.

     tits implements access control using the hosts_access(5) framework to
     filter incoming network connections.  The service name used to look up
     each port in the hosts_access(5) database is dependent on how the port is
     specified in the config-file.  If a numerical port is specified, the
     service name is the final component of the pathname used to invoke the
     program. Thus, this will be tits in normal operation.  If the port is
     specified using a service which needs to be looked up in /etc/services,
     this service name is used when checking the host_access(5) database.

     tits multiplexes the data streams between all configured tty ports and
     connected clients within a single process. Thus, it minimises system
     context switching overhead when there is a high I/O load.


FILES

     /usr/local/etc/tits.conf


SEE ALSO

     telnet(1), host_access(5), services(5), inetd(8), telnetd(8)


AUTHOR

     tits is Copyright 2001, Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>, and is published
     under the terms of the BSD-style license specified in the file LICENSE,
     supplied with the tits source distribution.


BUGS

     Only a tiny subset of the telnet protocol specified in the above RFCs is
     implemented.

     At this time, there is no `Control Port' providing supervisory functions
     for managing a tits process at runtime.

     This manual page could be better.

DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT      February 4, 2001      DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT

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