Hi All, another 2 cents: PuTTY. Free, open source code.
Cheers VK On Friday, 29 April 2016 04:30:42 UTC+2, Charlie Noah wrote: > There are people out there still using basic telnet for business purposes? > I have always respected Jim's opinions, and he is right - SecureCRT is the > best TE all around. I used SecureCRT for years, and even though I've been > retired for a while, I still get their updates, and they are staying > current with all the security threats popping up. > > Just my 2ยข worth, > Charlie > > On 04-28-2016 9:09 PM, Jim Idle wrote: > > Yes - the USE_WIN32_CONSOLE_SHORTCUT is likely the culprit. In order to > intercept console IO, there was some deep dark voodoo done in the telnet > service. If something uses nasty hacks like that to perform IO, then all > bets are off. > > I suggest taking a look at moving to SSH, despite the obvious problem of > TE upgrades. I use SecureCRT and it is easily the best TE out there. The > main reason is security, which I currently work in. Telnet has a lot of > issues in this regard and a lot of new ways into systems have been > discovered since that code was written. IF you are sure that your > environment is secure, then perhaps you can wing it for a while, but > I would give it serious consideration. > > Jim > > PS: Hello Mark > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Tuber <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 8:24:54 PM UTC-7, Jim Idle wrote: >>> >>> It's very likely that subversion is using special code to display the >>> message and probably to read the password. >>> The answer might be that you cannot do that. That telnet code is very >>> old now, you may be better trying an SSH server. >>> However, you could store the SVN password so it does not prompt, or, as >>> the enter key works, maybe just type the password and see what happens. >>> Perhaps it is trying to use a Windows popup? >>> Jim >>> >> >> I looked at the subversion code last night and it's a rats nest; it uses >> this Apache Portable Runtime that I haven't been able to untangle. If >> anyone wants to have a go I've traced it down to svn_cmdline_fputs: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/cmdline.c?view=markup#l382 >> Of particular interest is the USE_WIN32_CONSOLE_SHORTCUT define. >> >> It's not using a windows popup: If you enter the password it accepts it >> and stores it in the svn configuration directory. >> The problem I was trying to solve was when a new developer attempts to >> use my code that "PERFORM"s subversion and it hangs for no visible reason. >> What I figured out is to use cmd /c svn ci blah blah 0>&1 >> When subversion runs it figures out that there will be no stdin coming, >> and instead of prompting for the password and invisibly hanging, it prints >> out an error message and continues. If the password was already stored it >> does its thing. >> >> The SSH server is a good idea, but more than I want to bite off at this >> time. (That means upgrading all our terminal emulators, configuring them >> all, etc) >> >> Mark: F2 does not work, neither does running CMD, or doing it through a >> PERFORM. I'm sure now that it's subversion not playing nicely with the >> telnetd, not the shell. >> >> -- >> -- >> IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. >> >> To post, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "jBASE" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jBASE" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
