[2301] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
telnet/65: telnet does not complain if host principal not found
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hartmans@MIT.EDU)
Sun Oct 6 01:22:21 1996
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Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 01:21:34 -0400
From: hartmans@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jhawk@bbnplanet.com
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
>Number: 65
>Category: telnet
>Synopsis: telnet does not complain if host principal not found
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: hartmans
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Sun Oct e 01:22:00 EDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: jhawk@bbnplanet.com
>Organization:
mit
>Release: beta-7
>Environment:
System: SunOS starkiller 5.4 Generic_101945-37 sun4m sparc
>Description:
If telnet does not find a host entry then it silently refuses
to perform krb5 authentication. This is annoying when
telneting to multi-homed hosts when confusion causes you to get the
wrong host.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Consider adding some sort of warning if the client chooses not
to do authentication when the server offered support for the option.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
