Native Microsoft Telnet Client Blows Past the Password Prompt

[Brian dot Kelly at Empireblue dot com]

I've looked through the archives and have not seen a write-up on this. I
have the very latest cygwin everything installed on an MS 2000 Server.
TERM=cygwin  is set in the profile. Running the telnetd daemon with
inetutils. I have absolutely no problems connecting to this service with
any client program except the native one that comes with every copy of MS
2000. The native one that comes with every earlier copy of MS Windows - 95,
98, NT4 works just fine. When I use the Native MS 2000 telnet I get the
following output:


CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) (*******************) (tty2)

login: mylogin

Password:
Login incorrect
login:


Essentially, it just blows right past the password prompt without pausing -
apparently taking null as the password. This renders the MS 2000 Telnet
client completely useless for direct telneting. For most I imagine this not
a problem or even annoyance because probably just about every other client
in existance works just fine. The problem for me, is that I work for a
large organization, and I like the flexibility of being able to plop down
at desktop anywhere - more than 5000 desktops - and telnet to any of the
servers I manage and run scripts, do diagnosis, etc. On 98% of these
machines, MS 2000 telnet client is the ONLY client available, and I do not
have the right to install a different one whenever I want one (not to
mention the inconvenience even if I could). Currently, I work around this
by logging into an AIX box (which has it's own set of telnet-to-cygwin
woes) and then from there to my cygwin/MS 2000 boxes.

And since I did mention AIX, if one telnets to a cygwin box from the NATIVE
AIX telnet client, AIX does NOT display anything typed at the command line.
It receives it, and you can get output (after you press enter) and run
commands, etc. But not seeing what you're typing while you're typing it is
QUITE a headache. Now I know AIX is the one of the most reviled and avoided
OS's amongst the open source community. More than once I've encountered not
only disinterest - but almost what could be called PRIDE that this, that or
the other does not run on AIX. Nevertheless, one of the conundrums of my
existance is that AIX is what I am saddled with - not just with my current
employer, but 3 out of the last 5!

Are these known problems, or am I missing something "REALLY" simple here?
Is there something I can change to fix this? For AIX or MS 2000?

Brian Kelly




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