Re: Problem with Merit realms and Rlogin users

David Carmean (dlc@silcom.com)
Wed, 14 Aug 1996 08:28:18 -0700 (PDT)

In a previous message, William Bulley wrote:
>
> > Summary: Rlogin fails because user@realm.name is passed to rlogind.
> >
[snip]

> Here in MichNet we don't use rlogin for the obvious security reasons...

Well...tcpd and packet filters help a lot....but I know what you mean.

So if it's a "dumb" user login, they will *always* get a host prompt from
the NAS? You use Login-Service = Telnet ?

Well...I suppose shell users *should* be easier to retrain than PPP
users ("Is the Internet broken?")... :o)

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