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From: "William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com>
To: Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Subject: Re: telnet and xemacs-20.0b34
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Andy Norman writes:
>Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>
>> Could everyone experiencing the telnet-echo-password problem try
>> increasing the value of telnet-maximum-count?
>
>Ummm... I hate to be unconstructive here, but since this variable seems to be
>counting the number of times the initial process filter gets called (at least
>under 19.14); setting it to any particular value appear to be just a little
>bogus (to me, at least).  The number of times it gets called may well be not
>deterministic, especially when telnetting to a host over the Internet.

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

-Bill P.

