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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have closed source programs that telnet on windows boxes. Where I am constrained to Linux Jump servers. That now only have SSH. The Telnet is GONE on the jump servers. The closed source programs once connected (formerly via telnet) to the jump servers then know who to issue the commands to ssh into the remote targets.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I need a way to translate Telnet to SSH on the jump servers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The netcat on the jump servers do not have the –e option, so I cannot run nc in telnet mode into /bin/bash. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have found <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mkfifo pipe_name_in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mkfifo pipe_name_out<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>nc -l 5555 < pipe_name_out | /bin/bash > pipe_name_in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>which kind of works. However, the Standard Error does not go down the pipe. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So I don’t get any echo or prompts, only the response.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>nc -l 5555 < pipe_name_out | /bin/bash 2> pipe_name_in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>does get the some of the prompts but then no responses.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>nc -l 5555 < pipe_name_out | /bin/bash 2>&1 pipe_name_in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>fails to allow connections.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any suggestions or solutions?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Michael P. Flaga, <a href="mailto:michael@flaga.net"><span style='color:blue'>michael@flaga.net</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>