[2056] in Kerberos
Telnetd options
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Beauchemin)
Tue Jul 21 22:09:15 1992
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:49:33 GMT
From: bobb@agora.rain.com (Bob Beauchemin)
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU
I'm trying out the Kerberized Version of telnet/telnetd (dated 91.03.25
is this the latest version?) and have a question about the authentication
options of telnetd.
Telnetd has five authentication startup options(plus debug):
telnetd -a none
telnetd -a other
telnetd -a user
telnetd -a valid
telnetd -a off
The "user", "valid", and "other" options appear to produce much the same
results (although the "other" seems not to be used in the code). Any
of these options only seem to allow logon from:
1. Kerberized telnet with -a option and
2. Kinit'd user and
3. User in .klogin file on remote host
The "none" option allows kerberized telnet login (without a password) and
non-kerberized telnet login (with a password).
Is this how its supposed to work? What is supposed to be the real
difference between the "user" and "valid" options? I couldn't find any
docs for this telnetd option and am guessing by experimentation and
reading the code.
Thanks,
Bob Beauchemin
bobb@agora.rain.com
