MACTELNETD(1)

💖 MACTELNETD(1) — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, this is mactelnetd from the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally the telnet daemon for MAC-address connections. yes. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

mactelnetd — Telnet daemon for MAC-address connections 🌈

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mactelnetd [options]

like. that's it. that's the whole thing. no cap. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this daemon is out here listening, bestie. it listens for telnet connections from Mikrotik RouterOS devices or from mactelnet clients that are chillin' on the same physical network. same LAN, same vibe, you know how it is 🎀

and not only that — it also announces its hostname via the MNDP protocol every minute. every single minute. it's giving main character energy, it's giving "hi i exist" every 60 seconds, and honestly? iconic. ⭐

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, so no surprises there. a summary of options is included below, and i'm about to give you all of them, no skipping, no summarizing, we don't do that here 💖

• -n — do not use broadcast packets. a tad less insecure, which like… we love a little safety upgrade 🙈 this means the ethernet packets will have the MAC address of the client as the packet destination, instead of using the ethernet broadcast address. so it's one-to-one, not one-to-everyone.
• -o — use the older MD5 based authentication. lowkey less secure, highkey also requires your userfile to have the passwords in plaintext format 😭 and listen: if you're running the server with this parameter, you cannot add users using the -a option. them's the rules.
• -a — add a new user. the user should be an existing user in your system. and the cute part? this can be done without restarting your mactelnetd server, because it re-reads the user file for each authentication attempt. obsessed. ✨ you'll be prompted for the username and password, or you can use one of the following options to specify them on the command line:
  • -u username — you can specify the new username to add on the command line using this option. if this is not used, you will be prompted for the username. 🎀
  • -p password — you can specify the new password for the new user to add on the command line using this option. if this is not used, you will be prompted for the password. 🎀
• -d username — delete the specified user. bye bestie 💀 (politely, though)
• -l — list the available users in the /usr/local/etc/mactelnetd.users file. a little roster check, a little vibe check 👑
• -h — show summary of options. your girl's got you 🫶
• -v — show version of program. 🌸

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /usr/local/etc/mactelnetd.users — this file contains a line separated list of users that will have access to your machine. usernames and passwords are separated by colon. and the important bit: this file is read each time a user connects. every. single. connect. 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

mndp(1), mactelnet(1), macping(1).

the whole friend group fr fr 💜

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

mactelnetd was written by Håkon Nessjøen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>.

this manual page was written by Håkon Nessjøen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from February 27, 2011, so give it a little nostalgic moment 🥺💖 periodt.