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NAME
     tits Tiny Terminal Server

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/local/sbin/tits [config-file]

DESCRIPTION
     The tits command is a server process which provides telnet(1) or raw access
     to   one	or   more   tty   ports   as   specified   in	config-file  (or
     /usr/local/etc/tits.conf if no configuration file is specified on the  com-
     mand line).

     Any  number  of telnet(1) or raw clients may connect to a single tits port.
     Each client will see exactly the same output as well as being able to  send
     keystrokes simultaneously.

     tits  implements access control using the hosts_access(5) framework to fil-
     ter incoming network connections.	The service name used to  look	up  each
     port in the hosts_access(5) database is dependent on how the port is speci-
     fied  in  the  config-file.   If a numerical port is specified, the service
     name is the final component of the pathname used  to  invoke  the	program.
     Thus,  this will be tits in normal operation.  If the port is specified us-
     ing a service which needs to be looked up in  /etc/services,  this  service
     name is used when checking the host_access(5) database.

     tits multiplexes the data streams between all configured tty ports and con-
     nected  clients  within a single process. Thus, it minimises system context
     switching overhead when there is a high I/O load.

     tits also features a reverse telnet server which can be used  to  multiplex
     telnet(1) connections to another terminal server which is limited to a sin-
     gle  telnet(1)  connection at any one time. In conjunction with a masterpty
     client, the reverse telnet server can connect a remote terminal server to a
     psuedo-tty device on the local system.

FILES
     /usr/local/etc/tits.conf

SEE ALSO
     telnet(1), host_access(5), services(5), inetd(8), telnetd(8)

AUTHOR
     tits is Copyright 2001-2006, Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>, and	is  pub-
     lished  under  the  terms	of  the  BSD-style license specified in the file
     LICENSE, supplied with the tits source distribution.

BUGS
     Only a tiny subset of the telnet protocol specified in the  above	RFCs  is
     implemented.

     At  this  time,  there is no `Control Port' providing supervisory functions
     for managing a tits process at runtime.

     This manual page could be better.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	   Oct 6, 2006				 TITS(8)
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