Subject: Re: telnet problem netbsd 1.5.2
To: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/02/2001 17:29:30
>
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:17:36AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar 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.
>
> Use
>
> 	telnet -l otherusername hostname
>
> if this isn't the case.
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)?