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Re: /usr/athena/bin/telnet isn't kerberized?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Sep 18 19:46:10 2008
Message-Id: <200809182345.m8INjN31018515@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:29:24 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:45:23 -0400
>
> >> Isn't /usr/athena/bin/telnet supposed to be kerberized telnet on Athena 10?
>
> >apparently it doesn't encrypt by default (the code to try "-axF" seems
> >not to be there). Try telnet -x, or telnet -xF if you want to forward
> >credentials.
>
> telnet -xF works, however I get:
>
> zwgc: Unable to open X display -- disabling X driver.
>
> in spite of running xhost +<remote machine>. Is there any way to make it
> display X sessions? X windows runs fine this way on Athena 9.4 machines.
The real answer to xhost these days is "never do that, use ssh with X
forwarding, so your X traffic is encrypted too" (which it isn't with
telnet/xhost).
Jonathon
