From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: The "-K" option seens to do nothing in telnet that comes with RedHat 9. Even more, "toggle autologin" doe not work: [eda@eda tmp]$ telnet telnet> toggle autologin 'autologin': unknown argument ('toggle ?' for help). telnet> toggle ? and autologin is not listed as valid toggle argument by "toggle ?". Even if both "-K" and "toggle autologin are metioned on telnet man page. -K Specifies no automatic login to the remote system. autologin If the remote side supports the TELNET AUTHENTICATION option TELNET attempts to use it to perform automatic authentication. If the AUTHENTICATION option is not supported, the user's login name are propagated through the TELNET ENVIRON option. This command is the same as specifying a option on the open command. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): telnet-0.17-25 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. telnet 2. telnet> toggle autologin Additional info:
Well, well... # rpm -Uvh ~/telnet-0.17-25.src.rpm --oldpackage Password: 1:telnet ########################################### [100%] [harald@faro telnet]$ telnet -K telnet> toggle autologin Will send login name and/or authentication information. telnet> toggle autologin Won't send login name and/or authentication information. telnet> toggle help autoflush toggle flushing of output when sending interrupt characters autosynch toggle automatic sending of interrupt characters in urgent mode autologin toggle automatic sending of login and/or authentication info authdebug toggle Toggle authentication debugging autoencrypt toggle automatic encryption of data stream autodecrypt toggle automatic decryption of data stream verbose_encrypt toggle Toggle verbose encryption output encdebug toggle Toggle encryption debugging skiprc toggle don't read ~/.telnetrc file binary toggle sending and receiving of binary data inbinary toggle receiving of binary data outbinary toggle sending of binary data crlf toggle sending carriage returns as telnet <CR><LF> crmod toggle mapping of received carriage returns localchars toggle local recognition of certain control characters debug toggle debugging netdata toggle printing of hexadecimal network data (debugging) prettydump toggle output of "netdata" to user readable format (debugging) options toggle viewing of options processing (debugging) termdata toggle (debugging) toggle printing of hexadecimal terminal data ? display help information telnet>
oops, first line was the installation of the src.rpm... anyway... [harald@faro telnet]$ telnet -K telnet> toggle autologin Will send login name and/or authentication information. telnet> toggle autologin Won't send login name and/or authentication information. telnet> [harald@faro telnet]$ [harald@faro telnet]$ rpm -q telnet telnet-0.17-25