Re: [bug-inetutils] Important update of telnetd.

[Simon Josefsson]

Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> there has been further refinement of TELNET client and server
> during this week, so let me mention the present status.
>
> The development head of libshishi, as of 2012-08-16, and
> GNU Inetutils as of 2012-08-17, allow these enhancements:
>
>   * Server setup:
>
>      ## /etc/inetd.d/telnet
>      #
>      telnet stream tcp6 nowait root \
>         /usr/local/sbin/telnetd -h -a user -S telnet/address@hidden
>
>   * User setup:
>
>      address@hidden $ echo 'user/address@hidden' >> ~/.k5login
>                     $ chmod 0600 ~/.k5login
>
>   * Invokation steps:
>
>      $ shishi user/address@hidden
>
>      $ telnet -kLOCALHOST -a  telnet/localhost
>
>      [ Kerberos V5 accepts you as ``user/address@hidden'' (server 
> authenticated) ]

Neat!

/Simon