Re: Telnet login not allowed

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <5124E6FF.4020404%libero.it@localhost>,
Riccardo Mottola  <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> wrote:
>Ken Hornstein wrote:
>>>> telnet          stream  tcp     nowait  root /usr/libexec/telnetd
>>>> telnetd -a valid
>> I think you want to get rid of that "-a valid".
>changing -a valid to -a none works indeed, login is used as a fall-back.
>
>I found this:
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2010/03/09/msg001917.html
>
>did something change in our telnetd?

"-a valid" is not supposed to fall back. Otherwise its usefulness is reduced.

christos