Re: telnet sometimes gets "SRA secure login" prompt??

[Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory 
Neil Shapir
o writes:
> >> Edit your /etc/inetd.conf  "-a" option (man telnetd)
> >> telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd
> >> -a off
> 
> gavin> Had done - and after a kill -HUP inetd this still made no
> gavin> difference. This confused me... I eventually recompiled telnetd to
> gavin> use the old version
> 
> Using "-a off" won't help.  Use:
> 
> telnet        stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd
>  -a off -X sra
> telnet        stream  tcp6    nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd
>  -a off -X sra

I've got a patch that will disable authentication if -a off is only 
specified.  Specifying -X sra as well as -a off seems counterintuitive. 
 Would anyone be interested in my submitting the patch as a PR, or is 
-a off -X sra good enough?


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Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
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