Bug 51906

Summary:	updated telnet server/client now requires leading '\' to display backslash in greeting
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ron Flory <ron.flory>
Component:	telnet	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	notting
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Description Ron Flory 2001-08-16 18:35:21 UTC

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Description of problem:
 The updated RH 7.1 telnet client/server RPMs introduced a slight
incompatability with the previous versions (and other programs that 
use /etc/issue.net) in that the new telnet-0.17-18 now requires a leading
'\' to display a visible backslash in the user login 'greeting' message.

 This is different than the previous versions of telnet shipped with
RH 7.1, and now makes the /etc/issue.net incompatable between telnet and
the FTP server.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.place simple "\/" sequence in /etc/issue.net
2.login to localhost, notice that only '/' is visible in greeting.
3.login with FTP, notice that "\/" is visible in greeting.
4.revert to previous version of telnet, notice that "\/" is visible.
	

Expected Results:  all servers using /etc/issue.net should see the "\/" chars.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2002-02-28 11:00:28 UTC

this behaviour was intentionally added with
Patch7: telnet-0.17-issue.patch

Comments Bill?

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-02-28 17:16:48 UTC

it was done for compatibility with other programs that parse /etc/issue and
/etc/issue.net.