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>>>>> "David" == David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU> writes:

David> 	Anyways, in the past, I've occasionally connected to machines
David> which print 20+ lines of banner before the login prompt.
David> Usually they warning messages about the authorization to
David> connect.  In fact one site I just connected to currently has a
David> 23 line banner before the login prompt.

David> 	You could always wait for the first occurance of 'password', but
David> then you have a problem on password-less accounts.

See the comments.  That's going to be a problem anyway.  I want to
find out if it really is a problem with unexpected non-linebuffering
before taking drastic measures -- going to another scheme is going to
require a rewrite of that part of the code and take us out of synch
with Emacs.

I'm loathe to do either since if you're using telnet or rsh/rlogin,
you don't care about security anyway since you're throwing your
password in the clear across a network.
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