[252] in Release_7.7_team
Re: telnet -safe as default
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Sat Jan 14 15:16:00 1995
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 15:15:07 -0500
To: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU, brlewis@MIT.EDU
ghudson proposed changing safe to:
>> -safe For MIT Athena, this option attempts automatic login with an
>> encrypted data stream, and fails if this is not possible.
But you said:
> This, again, is poor. It causes the user who types telnet -safe to
> be mislead into thinking they're getting an encrypted connection, when
> maybe they are not.
I read his proposal to be, if you do -safe, and it can't do encrypted,
then it will exit, giving you no telnet connection at all. I think
that was a subset of your proposal...
> As for the counterargument, that telnet -ax should allow this behavior,
> that's bogus too, since lots of people type it (because it's shorter),
> and more importantly, telnet -ax exists outside of the Athena environment
> (44BSD, CNS's next release, Cray telnet), and shouldn't be monkeyed
> with...
Then you're saying the telnet -ax behavior we currently have is not the
same behavior everyone else is using?
Craig
