HonTel is a Honeypot for Telnet service, a Python v2.x application emulating the service inside a chroot environment. It is designed to be run in Ubuntu/Debian but can be adapted to any Linux environment. Configuration settings like authentication credentials, welcome message, hostname, architecture, log file location, and more can be modified in the hontel.py file.
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