*shrug* It was always called pass-thru, for years.
>It's called rlogin in the book. And if you are using a PM on a private
>network, it works peachy....
That's pass-thru.
Security off, default host set, port set to rlogin (single prompt) or
telnet (two login prompts, one telnet). You enter a username. If the name
is in the local user table it askes for a password and handles it from the
table.
If the name is not in the local file it jsut dumps you via rlogin or telnet
to the host configured for the port - or the system's default host. It
is then up to that system to ask for a password. It is a pass-thru login.
I've always discouraged the use of this, it dates from the time when PMs
where widely used as temrinal servers and people would sit in front of a
terminal and just access the central host.
Using RADIUS, or even the local table, provides for flexibility. It also
allows you to turn security on for the ports, which I consider a good thing.
-MZ
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