How to Configure Mac OS X Terminal for Secure Telnet
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Solution Center, 195 Durham Center, solution@iastate.edu or call IT
Services at 294-4000.
Telnet is used from the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities) command line.
Before telneting to a Project Vincent workstation (such as
isua.iastate.edu), you should change your terminal type to
vt100 or vt102.
On Mac OS X 10.6, telnet no longer supported encrypted telnet. ITS has
compiled Apple's open-source telnet that does support encrypted telnet.
Down the telnet that supports encrypted telnet from
here (1.3 MB). Then double-click the telnet.pkg package installer to
install telnet.
To use this version of telnet, open the Terminal application and type
the following telnet command:
(You must obtain Kerberos tickets before typing the telnet command)
/usr/local/bin/telnet -x -f <i>fqdn</i>
where fqdn is the domain name of the machine that you are
telneting too.
When using the above telnet command to connect to a Project Vincent
workstation, you will not be prompted again for your password. The
-f option allows the local credentials to be forwarded to
the remote system.
Mac OS X 10.5
Open the Terminal application and type the following telnet command:
(You must obtain Kerberos tickets before typing the telnet command)
/usr/bin/telnet -f <i>fqdn</i>
where fqdn is the domain name of the machine that you are
telneting too.
When using the above telnet command to connect to a Project Vincent
workstation, you will not be prompted again for your password. The
-f option allows the local credentials to be forwarded to
the remote system.
Terminal File
The Terminal application can save current Window Settings to a
Terminal file. Terminal files are actually
.plist files, but with a .term file extention
instead. Later, when you double-click on the Terminal file,
the Terminal application will start and the Window Settings in the
Teminal file will be used.
You can also cause the Terminal application to execute commands when you
double-click on a Terminal file.
As a complete example, you can download a isua.term
Terminal file for your version of Mac OS to automatically connect to
one of the isua machines:
