[7721] in testers
Re: /usr/athena/bin/telnet isn't kerberized?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Sep 18 19:35:09 2008
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0809181900280.3054@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:34:20 -0400
> We could potentially add a wrapper around it that uses -x if there
> are no options, but people without an Athena background are used to
> telnet not trying to do anything fancy by default, and -x will
> disconnect if authentication can't be negotiated.
That seems to be something special about telnet.krb5 on Ubuntu. On
RHEL 5, OS X, and Athena, I can use telnet.krb5 (With -axF) to connect
to web.mit.edu on port 80, for example, and have it work just fine.
Either way, I won't really be sad if krb5 telnet requires a bit more
effort on Debathena, since ssh has been the preferred method for quite
some time now.
-Jon
