[528] in NetBSD-Development
Re: telnet login broken again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eichin@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 7 15:44:41 1995
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 95 15:38:49 -0500
To: yoav@MIT.EDU
Cc: jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, jtkohl@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199502070702.CAA05376@I-See-Everything-Twice.MIT.EDU> (yoav@MIT.EDU)
From: eichin@MIT.EDU
The typical problem with authenticated rlogin [which shouldn't show up
under encryption, which is completely different code] under *BSD is
that *BSD have added creative new pty config options, such that what
you get by default is *not* a clean 8-bit channel. This means that if
your authenticator happens to contain \023 or sometimes \012 it will
be corrupted when passed through to login. This will fail repeatedly
or succeed repeatedly for a given set of tickets, so a single test is
not useful.
I'm not sure which side of the pty telnetd reads the authenticator
from, but it could have the same problem. You might be having other
problems here, but it's probably worth identifying if it is or isn't
this one...
_Mark_
