Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net> wrote:

>> > telneting to any machine from netbsd display only "Password:" and on login
>> > and lines before it.
>> >
>> > after enter it redisplays login: ok and then it's possible to login.

>> telnet now assumes that you want to login with you current login name.

>man says -a option turns autologin but it's turned on by default.
>how to turn it off (-l isn't good solution when i want to see text
>displayed before login)?

Put the following in ~/.telnetrc:

DEFAULT
	unset autologin

(Yes, I was quite peeved when this default changed without warning.
It was apparently part of the baggage that came with a kerberos update
pullup.)

jdarrow

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