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Krb5 telnet weirdness

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Hoffmann)
Sat Jul 25 16:38:38 1998

Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 16:38:16 -0400
From: hoffmann@MIT.EDU (Ron Hoffmann)
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: hoffmann@MIT.EDU

If I log into an 8.2 machine as myself and telnet to
paddington.mit.edu (running 8.2 mkserv remote w/a srvtab)
everything works fine.

If I log into an 8.2 machine as someone else (nocuser for
instance), kinit as myself, and then "telnet -l hoffmann pb"
the following happens:

   noc@blue-box% telnet -l hoffmann pb
   Trying 18.177.1.1...
   Connected to PADDINGTON.MIT.EDU (18.177.1.1).
   Escape character is '^]'.
   [ Kerberos V5 accepts you as ``hoffmann@ATHENA.MIT.EDU'' ]

and it freezes there.  I can do a Ctrl-] then close.

Weird.

-Ron

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