Re: Burrowing

["Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Excerpts from mail: (05-Jul-96) Re: Burrowing by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
> Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:
>> I'm likely to try these using Kerberos telnet/rlogin, neither of which ask
>> for passwords... so It Would Be Nice If the password prompt checking code
>> was optional (or maybe just only triggered if it *saw* a password
>> prompt...)
>
> For `nntp-open-telnet' the password thing is required. If you're using
> Kerberos, you should be able to use `nntp-open-rlogin', which uses rsh.
> (And should be called `nntp-open-rsh', I guess.)

I don't know about other environments, but in the Kerberos/AFS environments
I'm familiar with, rsh doesn't work, rlogin is frowned upon (especially since
the release of the encrypted, auto-authenticated version of telnet), and the
use of a ~/.rhosts files is completely disabled. And even if that weren't the
case, encrypted, auto-authenticated telnet streams are a *lot* sexier than
rlogin/rsh on any day of the week. If it wouldn't be too difficult, please
add a no-password-necessary option to `nntp-open-telnet' (or make a separate
function `nntp-open-telnet-no-password'?).

Thanks,
Ed