#371777 - 12/03/201917:31Re: Rooting a Uverse NVG589 Gateway
[Re: mlord]
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Originally Posted By: mlord
The telnetd command doesn't output anything useful to ping, but that's unimportant here. The idea instead is to just trick the shell into running a command it normally won't run, telnetd in this case.
Dayammm. That's a spicy meatball.
Nice explanation. Woulda been nice if the original writer of those instructions could have done the same.