[Dxspider-support] Can't enable password prompting on telnet

[Dirk Koopman]

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 09:59, Robert Chalmas wrote:
> HB9DHG wrote:
> 
> >>2) I don't have any password prompt in telnet session even if I've set
> >>   the set/var $main::passwdreq = 0 in my startup file (cmd directory)
> > 
> > I've not jet received any suggestion .. but for all community ..
> > in my Linux Mandrake 9.0 I must use the internal Telnet of DXSpider (with
> > listen.pl)
> > and not the xinet.d services of the OS.
> 
> You should use set/var $main::passwdreq = 1 to get the passwd request.
> 
> Anyway, I'm also having problems with that function on my node HB9IAP-9
> (running build 57.245 on Debian 3.0). I set the variable to 1, but no
> success: everyone gets in over telnet without being prompted for a password.
> I tried to add the variable to /spider/scripts/startup and restarted the node,
> but no more success.
> 
> What's is really strange is that this function works fine on my test machine,
> both with build 57.245 on Windows XP Pro and with build 57.242 on
> Mandrake 9.1 !

Well, certainly here on both the latest code and also the development
branch I am on asks for a password prompt if you set the variable as
above. I checked by copy and pasting your set/var exactly.

You are using the internal listener on your debian installation?
Passwords won't work on ax25 or connections coming in via the C client
(started by (x)inetd for example).

Dirk G1TLH
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