Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 23:06:52 -0600 (MDT) From: "David G. Andersen" <dga@pobox.com> To: Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU (Stanley Hopcroft) Cc: Security@FreeBSD.ORG, Carl.Makin@IPAustralia.Gov.AU (Carl Makin), shaddon@IPAustralia.Gov.AU Subject: Re: What is this and how do I control it ? Message-ID: <200010100506.XAA16526@faith.cs.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010101338340.12248-100000@stan.aipo.gov.au> from "Stanley Hopcroft" at Oct 10, 2000 01:55:03 PM
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Lo and behold, Stanley Hopcroft once said:
>
> Trying 10.0.100.252...
> Connected to tsitc.aipo.gov.au.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Trying SRA secure login:
> User (anwsmh):
>
> What does this mean and how do I manage it ?
It's exactly what it seems - it's a secure login protocol. SRA is
secure RPC authentication mechanism based on diffie-hellman. What do you
mean by "manage?"
> This telnet client, ktelnet 0.61 seems to negotiate the telnet
> authentication and encryption options by itself (!) but the FreeBSD
> telnet, invoked from an rxvt does not get this distinctive SRA secure
> login prompt.
telnet -a <host>
will enable authentication. You can accomplish the sme thing
automatically by putting:
host
set autologin on
in your .telnetrc file
> What means of authentication do they use ?
SRA.
> This is great, but I would like to know what is happening and how to
> reliably reproduce it eg from rxvts on the same client host, from
> ktelnet 0.61 on another machine.
Yup. See above.
-Dave
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