SUMMARY: (RESEND) Re: telnet -l <login_id> doesn't work

From: Krishna Murthy (kmurthy@novell.com)
Date: Wed Aug 11 1999 - 11:27:24 CDT


Hi Admins,

 Appologies for the delay, my question at the end.

 I would like to thank :
Brian Scanlan
Steve Harris
Marco Greene
Kevin Sheehan
Derek LIPIEC
simon.millard
Daniel Polombo
Casper Dik
Tony Garner
Nickolai Zeldovich
Steven Xiao

hope I haven't leftout anybody :-),

SUMMARY :
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 Many among the above suggested me to use "rlogin", "rsh", I was aware of this already, Brian Scanlan & Daniel Polombo told me what the man page says exactly, telnet wont use "-l" option for logging in as that user (parameter), it only sets the variable "USER" to that of the parameter mentioned with "-l" option after logging in. I really couldn't find advantage of this option (please let me know if you have information on this). I wanted to use telnet in a similar way to that of "rlogin" and "rsh", it seems that its not possible on Solaris 2.6, but I can use this option from solaris to login to linux machine, it works as per my expectation.

 Steven, I will let you know if I come across such option(s) in future.

Thanks again
Krishna Murthy

My Question was :

>>> "Krishna Murthy" <kmurthy@novell.com> 08/04/99 03:20PM >>>
Hi Admins,

  Thanks a lot for the help, many of them in the list are suggesting me to use "rlogin -l <login_id>" or "rsh -l <login_id>", I know I can use any one of these but I'm experimenting with "telnet", and man page says its possible to use <login_id> as the parameter with "telnet" command, I want make use of this feature.

Thanks in advance
Krishna Murthy

>>> "Krishna Murthy" <kmurthy@novell.com> 08/03/99 09:38PM >>>
Hi Admins,

  I want to use arguments with telnet command, telnet man page gives an option to specify username (-l option) with telnet, so that I can login as telnet -l user_name and directly get password prompt for the login-id "user_name", but somehow I'm not able to get this and it again prompts me for the user_name, if anyone has set this up (I know I need to tweak .telnetrc, .pref/environ files) and is working please let me know.

  I'm experimenting with SUN Solaris 2.6,

  I will summarise,

Thanks in advance,

Krishna Murthy



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