It is the act of using one machine to impersonate another. Many applications and tools in UNIX systems rely on source IP address authentication. An attack in which the attacker does not merely eavesdrop but takes action to change, delete, reroute, add, forge or divert data. Attacker is the system used by the attacker for the hijack. Victim is the system used by the victim for Telnet client connections to the target system.
Target is the target system that the intruder wants to compromise.
It is where the telnetd daemon is running. Waits for hunt to indicate a session has been detected. Logs in to target using Telnet . Decides to hijack. Sees strange new prompt.