[ih] remote login (was Re: First file transfer on ARPANET)

[John Day]

Dave,

As I said before, Telnet was designed to be a device driver protocol 
for the ARPANET.  Login is an application that runs on top of the OS. 
Sometimes this application is called a "shell."  Device drivers are 
usually (and in those days always) part of the OS.

RFC 1282 is just a tad later and does not appear to be part of the 
Telnet specification as near as I can tell.

Take care,
John


At 7:39 -0800 2012/12/12, Dave Crocker wrote:
>On 12/12/2012 5:37 AM, John Day wrote:
>>I should point out that the ARPANET never did do a remote login
>>protocol.  This is a fiction invented by sloppy textbook authors who
>>don't check the original sources and frankly, don't seem to be that bright.
>
>
>I assume that the distinction you are making is to require that the 
>protocol itself include login semantics.  Yes?
>
>If no, then what exactly do you mean?
>
>And why didn't the rlogin protocol qualify:
>
>    RFC 1282
>
>    Connection Establishment
>
>    Upon connection establishment, the client sends four null-terminated
>    strings to the server.  The first is an empty string (i.e., it
>    consists solely of a single zero byte), followed by three non-null
>    strings: the client username, the server username, and the terminal
>    type and speed.
>
>
>d/
>
>--
>  Dave Crocker
>  Brandenburg InternetWorking
>  bbiw.net