Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Specification of Berkeley networking utilities
Message-ID: <357@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 06:26:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: auspex.357
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>    (1) A TELNET server that supports such a feature could send IAC DO
>    SEND-USERNAME (a new option I just made up) before sending the
>    "login:" prompt. ....
>
>Actually, I think this capability is already defined in TELNET. Take a look at
>RFC927 for the details.

Not quite.  RFC927 specifies that the hosts exchange a 32-bit "UUID",
not a name; "rlogin"s auto-login feature permits the same user name to
have different UNIX numeric user IDs.