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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel D Badger)
Mon Feb 19 18:07:16 1990
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 18:07:01 EST
From: badger@GHOTI.LCS.MIT.EDU (Daniel D Badger)
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: rlogin
I will try not to flame, but here goes... I have already sent mail to both
bug-dialup and bug-new-dialup about this problem.
Since the new installation, the new dialups were not able to correctly execute
the rlogin protocol as were able dialup and dialup2. Since the methodology
for remote logins has just been changed, and thus connecting to dialup and
dialup2 impossible, its time I brought this up.
I use the rlogin program because I can, after login, suspend via ~^Z and 'bg'
the job, which will allow output to the terminal where I am also doing other
work. Unfortunately, telnet does not follow through with this behavior, thus
my need for rlogin. Since often I work from a terminal (vt220) via modem and
do a lot of net-hopping I need to see zwrites, writes, and the like right
away, so that I don't miss any important messages while I was busy elsewhere
(machine-wise).
The problem I've encountered is basically that in trying to connect to whichever
host of athena's using the rlogin program, the /bin/login program on the other
side doesn't seem to be doing the right kerberos functions. It will ask me
for my login name and password repeatedly. On the other hand, telnet *will*
understand who I am, but since this program does not suspend (with tty output)
as per above, when I am logged in from a measily little 80col*24line terminal,
this program is of no practical use to me, the poor net-hopping hacker, without
an xterm and a network connection to my home.
Since rlogin *used* to do the right thing before the last software *upgrade*,
it would probably be easy to patch, but I've only just recently installed the
previous version of kerberos on some machines in my realm, so I don't know
how much /bin/login has been changed since. Anyway, if this gets fixed soon
it would save me, and probably several other people, alot of frustration.
Please let me know if possible what fixes this leads to. Thanks. Daniel
