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sun4 8.2.3: telnet forwards non-forwardable tickets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Wed Jul 8 12:47:19 1998
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 12:47:03 EDT
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
System name: contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.2.3 (with mkserv)
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What were you trying to do?
Telnet through several machines, forwarding my tickets along at
each step.
What's wrong:
The default telnet options do not forward forwardable tickets.
One has to specify '-F' to get forwardable tickets on the remote end.
What should have happened:
Telnet should probably have '-F' added to the Athena default options.
Using telnet to chain through more than one machine is not uncommon. As a
point of comparison, ssh forwards forwardable tickets by default (I'm not
even sure if it can be made to forward non-forwardable tickets). At the very
least, the default behaviour of these two programs should be synchronized
in this regard.
