7:30 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

• For the record, I’d like to state that it is too damn cold.
• Fixed Masha’s data
• Had a conversation with Christine about PPM. It looks like they are going to need a new section to track “real-time” inflows and outflows of cash from projects. Head’s up, Dong! Working on scheduling a meeting to go over things in detail.
• Adding the Cygwin Telnet/Ftp server to my machine. So far, here are the steps (from http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/nilsson/InetdunderWindows2000.doc):
  1. Run “mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd” at the Cygwin prompt.  This creates the passwd file which is similar in format and function to the Linux passwd file.  Run mkpasswd with no parameters for a usage summary.  You might need to add a -d parameter to grant domain users access.
  2. Edit /etc/passwd and delete everything but the accounts you want to have access permissions.  (In most cases, you’ll end up with only two lines in this file — your account and Administrator.)
  3. Make sure that your home directory (ie, c:cygwinhomephil.feldman) exists.
  4. Right-click “My Computer” and select Properties.  Click the “Environment Variables” button on the “Advanced” tab.  Add a new system variable…the name is CYGWIN and the value is “ntsec” (no quotes).  This tells Cygwin to use your Windows 2000 security.
  5. Add C:CygwinBin to the PATH system variable.  (Stick it at the end, separated from everything else with a semicolon (“;”)).
  6. Run “/usr/sbin/xinetd.exe –install-as-service”.
  7. Reboot!
  8. Well, that didn’t work. Started up the Windows Telnet server for now.  That’s just a matter of turning on the service.
• Looking at the apache.commons-net package as my telnet interface
  • The main project page: http://commons.apache.org/net/
  • An article about commons-net with an example of how to create and use a TelnetClient: http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=java&seqNum=40
  • JTelnet is old and probably not supported, but might be useful for reference: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtelnet/
  • JavaSSH is less old and has more hits. Could also be useful: http://javassh.org
    • Their javadoc: http://javassh.org/download/source/index.html
  • Tom says that Telnet can be made secure by moving it to another port. Also that the xinetd application from cygwin is supposed to be secure.