FreeBSD-CURRENT telnet can't disable autologin

Thyer, Matthew Matthew.Thyer at dsto.defence.gov.au
Wed Oct 15 02:06:35 PDT 2003


Sorry my fault for not testing well enough.

You are quite correct it works when I actually telnet to a machine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Kientzle [mailto:kientzle at acm.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2003 4:31 PM
To: Thyer, Matthew
Cc: 'current at FreeBSD.org'
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-CURRENT telnet can't disable autologin


Thyer, Matthew wrote:
> Some people don't want auto login but are being frustrated when they try to disable it as below.
> 
> What is the correct way to disable this feature?
> 
> fuzz: {1017} cat ~/.telnetrc 
> unset autologin
> 
> fuzz: {1018} telnet
> telnet> display
> will flush output when sending interrupt characters.
> won't send interrupt characters in urgent mode.
> will send login name and/or authentication information.    <----- * NOTE

This should work.

Note that, according to the man page, the .telnetrc
file is read at the time of the 'open' command,
so the above does accord with the documentation.

What happens when you try to 'open' a connection?

Tim Kientzle


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