This is generally construed as a feature. It is telling you that a) you installed SSLtelnet and that b) it has successfully connected to a system that also has SSLtelnet. What just happened is that public keys were exchanged and everything from that point on is encrypted. Guess what? No more password sniffing attacks!
You wouldn't want to turn off those messages, because they assure the user that encryption ins being used. As far as how to get the actual /etc/issue file to be displayed, I wish I knew. I haven't read through the docs thoroughly yet. Of course, since you're telnetting to yourself it's not too useful yet, but if more people ran SSLtelnet (or ssh) we'd be that much closer towards closing another security hole. BTW, SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. It's quite cool, imho. -- Nathan Norman : Hostmaster CFNI : [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Tue, 13 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: :When I telnet to localhost from localhost I get the following: : :Trying to negotiate SSL :[SSL starting] :[SSL Connected - Cipher RC4-MD5] :[SSL :subject=/O=cyberdynamics.com/OU=panther/CN=telnetd/[EMAIL PROTECTED] :[SSL :issuer=/O=cyberdynamics.com/OU=panther/CN=telnetd/[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Password: : :Is ther a file similar to /etc/issue.net that I can edit to clean this up? :What is this for? Is this some kind of error? : :Thanks, : : : :--Rick : :[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : :-- :TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] . :Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .