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Date:      Thu, 05 Apr 2001 06:35:28 -0700
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
Cc:        Assar Westerlund <assar@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all <cvs-all@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/secure/lib/libtelnet Makefile
Message-ID:  <3ACC74A0.7000304@quack.kfu.com>
References:  <200104050037.f350b7t89955@freefall.freebsd.org> <3ACC0695.4010603@quack.kfu.com>

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By the way, lest anyone forget, all of this functionality we're talking 
about isn't even the default for telnet. You actually have to *ask* for 
it (telnet -a) to do an automatic login. IMHO allowing this to proceed 
without at least ROT13ing ( :-) ) the authentication data does not meet 
POLA guidelines. It's even worse than that, though, since plaintext is 
used *without any warning*, which doesn't even allow the user a chance 
to be astonished (unless he finds out someone sniffed his credentials).


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