problems with FreeBSD telnet client

Tillman Hodgson tillman at seekingfire.com
Mon Nov 10 18:20:19 PST 2003


On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:16:50PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
> I've asked this before (a long while back), but never got a response.
> 
> When I telnet to a Cisco device from a FreeBSD machine, I get this
> error:
> 
> jazz% telnet somerouterorswitch
> Password: Kerberos:     No default realm defined for Kerberos!
> 
> Assuming you don't use Kerberos, is there a way to make the telnet
> client not attempt to use it to authenticate?

Sure, two possible solutions:

* Set up your Cisco devices to use Kerberos

* Check out the -K option in the telnet man page

-T


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