Hello,
the Texinfo page for Telnetd is seriously lacking essential
information. Let me propose the following additions. They
have been compiled from the source 'telnetd/telnetd.c'.
The little experience I have in writing Texinfo source,
only lead me to use '@samp{}' repeatedly to accomplish
the mark up.
Best regards,
Mats E A
--- doc/inetutils.texi.orig
+++ doc/inetutils.texi
@@ -3316,11 +3316,25 @@
@table @option
@item -a AUTHMODE
@itemx --authmode=AUTHMODE
-Specify what mode to use for authentication.
+Specify what mode to use for authentication. Allowed values
+are: @samp{none}, @samp{other}, @samp{user}, @samp{valid},
+and @samp{off}.
@item -D[LEVEL]
@itemx --debug=[LEVEL]
-Set debugging level.
+Set the debugging level. The argument is a comma separated list
+of the categories: @samp{options}, @samp{report}, @samp{netdata},
+...@samp{ptydata}, and @samp{auth}. All these may be used in the
+form @samp{name[=level]}. Omission of @samp{level} implies the
+maximal possible debugging for that particular category.
+
+There is one additional cetegory @samp{tcp}, that does not allow
+the additional level indicator, but is instead equivalent to
+setting the socket option @samp{SO_DEBUG} for debugging the
+complete traffic.
+
+The outcome is the file @file{/var/telnet.debug}, to which
+data is incrementally added as time passes.
@item -E
@itemx --exec-login=STRING
