[2419] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: telnet/157: Telnetd incorrectly identifies Irix as BSD 4.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Thu Nov 7 15:57:29 1996
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU, krb5-bugs-redist@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Nov 1996 12:38:58 PST."
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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 15:56:39 -0500
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
> Sam> I'm really tempted to remove the OS-specific banner all
> Sam> together; it's unnecessary non-portable code.
>I would heartily agree with this. I would even consider replacing
>this with a "Kerberos-telnetd version string", which would be MUCH
>more useful.
I dunno, I can see arguments on both sides. You could say that exposing the
Kerberos version string would be potential information for crackers (but then,
so is the OS type).
I guess my two main concerns are:
- It's not right to report the wrong OS type
- I would like to keep some of the original appearance of telnetd the same
since users get easily confused by new things.
--Ken
