Re: RH Linux telnet problems

[jhardin () wolfenet com (John D. Hardin)]

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Rui Ribeiro wrote:

> It should issue a error and not ask for the password, since

Not necessarily. Shortcutting the login process in that manner would
leak security policy information.

If you *always* get "Login" and then "Password", then you cannot
determine whether the failure was due to an invalid account name, a
bad password, or security policy restrictions.

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