Bug in Kerberized telnet??

Ken Raeburn raeburn at MIT.EDU
Tue Jul 6 13:28:43 EDT 2004


On Jul 6, 2004, at 13:05, John Hascall wrote:
> Some (better, I'd say) telnet implementations
> don't initiate any telnet option processing
> if you specify a (non-standard) port# so
> you *can* use it to test other tcp-based
> protocols.  Looks like this was doesn't
> (but perhaps it has an option to do so).

I think that's our telnet's normal behavior too.  But he explicitly 
gave the -a option as well as the port number, so I can't think of 
anything more reasonable for it to do than attempt telnet 
authentication...

Ken



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