telnet using crypted password between sun boxes.

[max1x]

I would like to telnet from one box to another box using encrypted passwords. The crypted password is being pulled from a DB.

I cannot figure out how the target box can understand the crypted passwd. SSH is not an option at this time unfortunately.

 

[elgrandeperro]

Can it be put into radius or ldap ? Then you can use those pam modules to authenticate.

 

[max1x]

nethier of those options exist at the client end.

 

[elgrandeperro]

Can you clarify? When you say "crypted password" do you mean you only have the crypt text that normally is contained in the passwd/shadow file?

 

[max1x]

the passwords are stored in the DB are crypted using MD5; so when I attin the passwd string it's encrypted.

I know the original password as well, but I can't hardcode that inside the script. The ohter option I'm looking at is to convert the shell script into a binary executable.