[14962] in Athena Bugs
Re: SGI "mkserv remote" telnetd exhibits "different" behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Feb 16 10:57:35 1997
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 10:57:31 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, hoffmann@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14956] in Athena Bugs"
> In the past, "-a off" eliminated the need to type a login name.
Nitpick: in the past, "-a off" eliminated the need to have to kinit
after logging in, not the need to type a login name. On correctly
functionining platforms, you should not have to type a login name
whether or not you use "-a off".
That said, yes, there is a bug in the Athena login program such that,
on System V systems, you must type your username unnecessarily. I've
been slow in fixing the problem because I have plans to completely
revamp the login source (which is probably the worst piece of code in
our entire tree, now that we don't build AFS for the release), but
because the new login library won't be ready for the 8.1 release, I
may have a go at fixing this particular bug.
