[3462] in Kerberos
Re: kerberos V rlogin isn't resizing right.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald T. Davis)
Thu Jun 23 14:54:34 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: "Donald T. Davis" <don@cam.ov.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 14:32:44 -0400
mark eichin writes:
> I've never seen (except perhaps on an actual BSD 4.2 system) a version
> of "urgent" data that worked the way rlogin expected it to. I believe
> telnet manages to pass the same sort of information without requiring
> such arcana, and would suggest that the general solution to problems
> with rlogin is to replace it with telnet...
i rewrote the rlogin code that handles xterm resizing for krb v4,
but this became the erlogin version of rlogin. erlogin has languished
since. erlogin{,d} did handle resizing and some other stuff correctly,
but i kerberized it with an experimental kerberos api (knetd) that we
at athena abandoned soon thereafter. erlogin's strength is that it is
able to gracefully negotiate version differences with older bsd
versions of rlogin{,d}, even though the protocol doesn't include a
version number. this is the source of the resizing bug in normal rlogin.
the erlogin code could be upgraded to v5 quite easily (if it hasn't been
already), if you specifically want rlogin functionality instead of
telnet's. however, i never ported erlogin widely (just the microvax
and the ibm pc/rt -- it's that old).
-don davis
openvision
cambridge, ma
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