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From: rob@wzv.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta)
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Subject: Re: disable login on telnetD
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Date: 30 Jan 93 11:00:25 GMT
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br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (PCT) writes:

>Hi,

>  I have a special situation where I want to have the Sun Sparc-2 running 
>SunOS 4.1.1 to be a telnet server front end to a mainframe telnet server.
>But I only want to login once, so I have to find out how to disable login
>banner & all from the front end telnet server, so that the telnet connection
>goes all the way thru, then the mainframe generate a login banner instead.

Put a .hushlogin in the home directory of the user perhaps ? If you then
run telnet <hostname> in .login you'll get what you want.

Rob
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