Is there a way to keep terminal.app from sending username while telneting?

Fahrvergnuugen

Fahrvergnuugen

I am the law!
In 10.2 it seems as though terminal.app automatically sends your OSX username as the login to the server when you telnet. This would be great...except my username is different on my server than it is on my desktop so now I have this huge error log of incorrect telnet logins on my server.

Does anybody know of a way to stop terminal.app from doing this??
 
Actually it has nothing to do with terminal.app. It is the telnet program that does it. run telnet with the -K option and it will keep it from attempting to login into the remote system automatically.

Brian
 
Originally posted by bootedbear
Or better yet, use ssh with the -l option.

hth,
bear
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ssh doesn't do me any good since i want telnet and not secure shell.

i added "alias telnet telnet -K" to my ~.tcshrc file so now life is normal once again :) thanks btoneill, I didn't find anything about the -K option or about auto login in the telnet help which is why I thought it was something with terminal.app instead.
 
Never both with the help stuff for anything that has a command line. Use man (ie. man telnet). man is your best friend. man is the answer to all of lifes problems. man is the man :)

Brian
 
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