tags 269016 wontfix thanks On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:00:11AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On mar, fév 21, 2006, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > It does not support encryption either, and the man page also states that. > > The .netrc is not supported, and as the man page states, only ~/.telnetrc > > is used. > > I didn't mention encryption, and the man page does not mention .netrc, > it mentions .telnetrc, but it does not say that it is read exclusively. > > I wish telnet would read ~/.netrc, perhaps upstream can be convinced to > do that so that people can configure a single file for hosts <-> > accounts mappings. I've renamed by report accordingly.
I don't think upstream will implement any other feature since he's dead. > If upstream says it can't be implemented, please tag this bug wontfix > so that other do not have to wonder why telnet does not read the .netrc > file they created. Done. > > If you send me one of the expect scripts you mention, I'll happily > > include them in the package. > > Too bad I've dropped them already, I should have sent them in the first > place, and I should have filed separate reports for the issues / > requests I had back then, but it was one of my first bug reports. If I > happen to find an archived copy, I'll happily resend it to you. Thanks a lot, Alberto -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | Formación, consultoría y soporte técnico agi@(inittab.org|debian.org)| en GNU/Linux y software libre Encrypted mail preferred | http://inittab.com Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3
