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From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
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Subject: Re: telnet/tcp problems in 4.0-RELEASE
In-Reply-To: <395C9767.3CB72C03@paradise.net.nz> from Mark Ibell at "Jul 1, 0 00:49:43 am"
To: marki@paradise.net.nz (Mark Ibell)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:16:09 -0700 (MST)
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As I recall, Mark Ibell wrote:
> We have a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (GENERIC kernel) box at work that has
> exhibitted some strange telnetd behaviour.  For example, when you try
> to telnet in you get a login prompt straight away but after entering a
> password have to wait for exactly 150 seconds (2m30s) until the shell
> prompt is reached.

Sounds like you've enabled one of the networked authentication
methods (NIS?  Kerberos?) on the server, but don't actually have
such services available.  So, the server times out its query and
defaults back to the password file.

	-crl
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