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>>>>> "William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

> Andy Norman writes:
> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

sb> Could everyone experiencing the telnet-echo-password problem try
sb> increasing the value of telnet-maximum-count?

ange> Ummm... I hate to be unconstructive here, but since this
ange> variable seems to be counting the number of times the initial
ange> process filter gets called (at least under 19.14); setting it to
ange> any particular value appear to be just a little bogus (to me, at
ange> least).  The number of times it gets called may well be not
ange> deterministic, especially when telnetting to a host over the
ange> Internet.

William>   Definitely strikes the 'danger' chord here.  Why not just
William> always check for password regexps in incoming data, that way
William> if you 'su' or telnet again from the other host, it will get
William> caught.  Isn't this what Emacs19 does?

Nope.  They do the same thing we do.

My request still stands.  It solves the problem on the systems I have
access to.
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