NAME

       mactelnetd - Telnet daemon for MAC-address connections

SYNOPSIS

       mactelnetd [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This  daemon  listens  for  telnet connections from Mikrotik RouterOS devices or mactelnet
       clients on the same physical network.  It  also  announces  it's  hostname  via  the  MNDP
       protocol every minute.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax.  A summary of options is included
       below.

       -n     Do not use broadcast packets. A  tad  less  insecure.   This  means  that  ethernet
              packets  will have the mac-address of the client as the packet destination, instead
              of using the ethernet broadcast address.

       -o     Use the older MD5 based authentication. This is less secure, and also requires your
              userfile  to  have the passwords in plaintext format. If you are running the server
              with this parameter, you cannot add users using the -a option.

       -a     Add a new user. The user should be an existing user in your  system.  This  can  be
              done  without  restarting  your  mactelnetd server as it re-reads the user file for
              each authentication attempt. You will 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.

       -l     List the available users in the /usr/local/etc/mactelnetd.users file.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -v     Show version of program.

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. This file is read each
              time a user connects.

SEE ALSO

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

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).

                                        February 27, 2011                           MACTELNETD(1)