Ultrix 4.1 telnetd login bug

Ian! D. Allen [CGL] idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
Sat Feb 9 08:05:18 AEST 1991


If you use the %t and %d escapes in your gettytab banner, getty will
expand them but telnetd won't.  Use telnet to connect and you see:

    DECsystem 5400 (yourhost %t)
    Ultrix V4.1 (Rev. 52)
    %d
    login:

This has been broken since at least Ultrix 3.0.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
 [129.97.128.64]  Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada



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