Re: cmd.exe as telnetd login shell: "mode con LINES=24 COLS=80" has no effect..

2002-12-03 Thread nicebounce
Ross: I talked to a support person at ataman.com about their telnetd product. My interpretation is that cmd.exe has multiple (simultaneous?) modes of operation: o it can open STDERR/STDIN/STDOUT like a normal character based application. This is the only mode that cygwin telnetd o

RE: cmd.exe as telnetd login shell: "mode con LINES=24 COLS=80" has no effect..

2002-11-29 Thread Ross Smith II
Tom, The Windows Telnet Service fixes the MORE and DOSKEY problems you describe. If you want to disallow external telnet, you could block port 23, and require users to ssh in, and then run % telnet localhost Of course, they'll have to enter their NTLM username/password. You could even change t

Re: cmd.exe as telnetd login shell: "mode con LINES=24 COLS=80" has no effect..

2002-11-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hi, Hello: A couple of people that insist on using cmd.exe as their login shell when they telnet or ssh to our w2kserver. When the login shell is set to "/cygdrive/c/winnt/system32/cmd", and "putty" is the telnet client: 1) "more < foo" does not work, it has no clue about the