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hlogin / hpuifilter ssh woes
Dear list,

It seems that the hpuifilter program called by hlogin is not able to
supply ssh clients with a login password. Clearly the hlogin script
does not work without hpuifilter, though I am uncertain why it is
needed. Is its use simply to suppress command echo output when paging
through configuration, etc.; or is something more complex going on?

I'd sure like to track changes on some HP switches that I've recently
been made responsible for; but enabling the telnet service is not a very
good option. Suggestions? :-)

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Jeff S Wheeler <jsw at jsw.louisville.ky.us>
hlogin / hpuifilter ssh woes [ In reply to ]
Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:59:50PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler:
> Dear list,
>
> It seems that the hpuifilter program called by hlogin is not able to
> supply ssh clients with a login password. Clearly the hlogin script
> does not work without hpuifilter, though I am uncertain why it is
> needed. Is its use simply to suppress command echo output when paging
> through configuration, etc.; or is something more complex going on?

see the description at the tail of clogin(1).

> I'd sure like to track changes on some HP switches that I've recently
> been made responsible for; but enabling the telnet service is not a very
> good option. Suggestions? :-)

(open)ssh is reading from /dev/tty, even though there is no controlling
terminal. iirc, this was working, but the ssh code is obvious....i'm
not sure what the right fix is yet.