telnet prompt issue

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Hi, I have a simple question about telnet. The current telnet login prompt is “hostname login:”. How can I remove the hostname from the prompt and make it only show “login:”? Thank you in advance!

2

Hi thesunlover,

from man telnetd:

Regards,
Jens

3

First, read the comments in /etc/init.d/xinetd which explain why you shouldn’t use telnet. I hope you’re not using it to log in from anywhere other than your network. Then add this line to /etc/init.d/xinetd

	server_args	= -h -H

The restart xinetd

$ service xinetd  restart[/CODE]

Before
[CODE]me@mine:~> telnet 172.16.54.133
Trying 172.16.54.133...
Connected to 172.16.54.133.
Escape character is '^]'.
Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3  (x86_64) - Kernel 3.0.101-0.8-default (2).

localhost login:

After:

[CODE]me@mine:~> telnet 172.16.54.133
Trying 172.16.54.133…
Connected to 172.16.54.133.
Escape character is ‘^]’.

login:
[/CODE]

4

And for those (like me) too lazy to type -H over and over:

Code:

echo “alias telnet=‘telnet -H’” >> ~/.alias

Hopefully this goes without saying, but telnet should never be used
anymore. It’s been replaced by a dozen other, and secure, tools. telnet
makes sniffing passwords as easy as it gets, and there are no workarounds
there so if anything you do via telnet matters, please stop.

–
Good luck.

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5

Hi ab,

it was about the server, not the client :wink:

Regards,
Jens