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- From: bobb@agora.rain.com (Bob Beauchemin)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
- Subject: Telnetd options
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.234933.22768@agora.uucp>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 23:49:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: agora.1992Jul21.234933.22768
- Sender: bobb@agora.uucp (Bob Beauchemin)
- Organization: Open Communications Forum
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- I'm trying out the Kerberized Version of telnet/telnetd (dated 91.03.25
- is this the latest version?) and have a question about the authentication
- options of telnetd.
-
- Telnetd has five authentication startup options(plus debug):
-
- telnetd -a none
- telnetd -a other
- telnetd -a user
- telnetd -a valid
- telnetd -a off
-
- The "user", "valid", and "other" options appear to produce much the same
- results (although the "other" seems not to be used in the code). Any
- of these options only seem to allow logon from:
- 1. Kerberized telnet with -a option and
- 2. Kinit'd user and
- 3. User in .klogin file on remote host
-
- The "none" option allows kerberized telnet login (without a password) and
- non-kerberized telnet login (with a password).
-
- Is this how its supposed to work? What is supposed to be the real
- difference between the "user" and "valid" options? I couldn't find any
- docs for this telnetd option and am guessing by experimentation and
- reading the code.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Bob Beauchemin
- bobb@agora.rain.com
-