[j-nsp] Juniper as a route-server

[Niels Raijer]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:12:20PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> Tried:  
>         user guest {
>             uid 2001;
>             class guest;
>             authentication {
>                 encrypted-password ""; # SECRET-DATA
>             }
>         }
> 
> And a telnetd wrapper called in inetd.conf:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> USER="guest"
> /usr/libexec/telnetd
> 
> But it still prompts for a password (to which there is no valid answer)
> the first time through.
> 
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Password:
> Login incorrect
> login: guest
> Last login: Wed Dec  4 18:51:48 from x.x.x.x

What user are you logged in as on the box you are trying this from? Telnet
may be passing that username to the Juniper, so when you tried the above,
the first time it was actually asking for your, and not guest's password.

Try to connect with telnet -l guest instead.
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