Re: Username via Telnet?

Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz ((no email))
Thu, 7 Sep 1995 20:16:33 -0700 (PDT)

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Once upon a time C.LEUE@GEONET.DE shaped the electrons to say...
>RLOGIN. My host only understands Telnet. Is there any way I can get the
>Portmaster to forward the name the user had entered to the host even with
>SET SERVICE_LOGIN TELNET? It looks rather silly to re-prompt for the

Unfortunately, the way telnet is implimented, I don't know of a way to
do that. It could work with rlogin because you can edit /etc/hosts.eqiv
or the users $HOME/.rhosts files. Telnet doesn't use anything like that.

-MZ

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