[SCM] GNU Inetutils branch, master, updated. inetutils-1_9_2-57-g9c4b9b1

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commit 9c4b9b1f6dc025c69361328f134aac03287d8b9a
Author: Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Mar 25 22:26:53 2015 +0100

    Documentation (silent change)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f7a2996..cff5233 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ Version 1.9.3:
 
 * ftp
 
+An old inability to allow other names than the canonical name has
+been corrected.  This means that a machine entry in the .netrc file
+will now be used as expected.  Previously any alias name was replaced
+by the corresponding canonical name, before reading the .netrc file.
+
 The internal command `hash' accepts a suffixed letter to the size
 argument, like `12k', instead of 12288.  Made a minor change to the
 syntax of the command itself, allowing size changes independently
@@ -45,6 +50,17 @@ there has for a long time existed an attack vector based on 
large
 facility numbers, made public in CVE-2014-3684.  This is now mended
 in our code base.
 
+* telnetd
+
+The ability to autologin a client, without using authentication,
+is now functional in the expected manner, i.e., the prompt for a
+user name is suppressed in favour of an immediate password prompt.
+
+In a setting where the client is using a UTF-8 encoding, it was
+common to observe strange characters in most responses.  This was
+caused by the server daemon, due to incomplete purging of internal
+protocol data.  The issue should now be resolved.
+
 * whois
 
 Improved cooperation with servers like `whois.arin.net', `whois.eu',

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