Re: Telnet login not allowed

["Riccardo Mottola" <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:48:38 +0100, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost>  
wrote:

> 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.

You are right.  And I checked on an old 2.x machine and the flag wasn't  
there at all.. this explpains a couple of things then. I was logging in  
from windows with the standard client and PUTTY (but without configuring  
the username).

Riccardo